Service Pack Deployment

Desktop Central, in addition to Patch Management, also supports the deployment of Service Packs (SP) for Windows operating systems and other applications. You can scan your network to identify the computers in which Service Packs are missing and deploy them appropriately. The Service Pack installation/ uninstallation can be performed on multiple systems simultaneously, thus saving your time and effort. As a first step, you can scan your network for identifying the missing service packs. Then, the missing service packs are downloaded and stored locally, which can be installed on to the systems. A configuration needs to be defined to proceed with the deployment of Service Packs. A configuration once defined can be used any number of times to deploy service packs to any number of systems.

There is also an option to automate the deployment of the Service Pack updates by scheduling the frequency to scan the systems and specifying the action to be performed upon successful completion of the scanning. Moreover, the status of the service pack deployment is made available. These can be viewed later by exporting them to PDF, CSV and XLS formats or by generating reports.

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows XP (SP2, SP3)
• Windows XP -x64 (SP2)
• Windows Server 2003 (SP1, SP2)
• Windows Server 2003 -x64 (SP2)
• Windows Vista (SP1, SP2).
• Windows Vista -x64 (SP1, SP2).
• Windows Server 2008 (SP2)
• Windows Server 2008 -x64 (SP2)
• Windows 7 (SP1)
• Windows 7 -x64 (SP1)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 -x64 (SP1)

.Net Framework Applications

• .Net Framework 1.0  (SP3)
• .Net Framework 1.1 (SP1)
• .NET Framework 2.0 (SP1, SP2)
• .NET Framework 2.0 -x64  (SP1, SP2)
• .NET Framework 3.0 (SP1)
• .NET Framework 3.5 (SP1)

Office Applications

• Microsoft Office 2003 (SP3)
  
• Microsoft Office 2007 (SP1, SP2 & SP3)
• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack 2007 (SP1, SP2 & SP3)
• Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (SP1, SP2 & SP3)
• Microsoft Office 2010 -x86 (SP1)
  
• Microsoft Office 2010 -x64 (SP1)
• Microsoft Visio 2010 -x86 (SP1)
  
• Microsoft Visio 2010 -x64 (SP1)
• Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 (SP3)
• Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003 (SP3)
• Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2007 (SP1, SP2 & SP3)
• Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2007 ( SP2, SP3)
• Microsoft Office Power Point Viewer 2007 (SP1, SP2 & SP3)
• Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 (SP) - x86 & x64
• Microsoft Office Power Point Viewer 2010 (SP1)
• Microsoft Office Web Components 2003 (SP1)

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Free Service Pack Installation

You can deploy Windows Service Packs using the free edition of Desktop Central, which includes Service Pack Deployment.