I was referring to the lack of skills inherent in many Windows sysads, not to the 'hey this should work in any environment'. That being said, if the system is on the network, available, and you have credentials to get into it, a batch file and psexec will do wonders, even in the environment you describe. AD has nothing to do with it, given that to admin any box you need admin credentials, so they are assumed.
Further, given servers (and this is all about Windows, not $insert_*nix_OS_here) you can handle their installs similarly, with scheduling the proper downtime, blah, blah.. proper process stuff that had nothing to do with my challenge.
So, given the ability to network login to the machine and run psexec or Task Scheduler.. I believe any Windows sysad worth a damn should be able to figure out how to remote install an application without suggesting buying $overpriced_application_for_the_environment.
If you can figure out ways to do it, then the statement doesn't apply to you, and thus should not offend you.
And I am "one of our IT guys". I'm getting very tired of the crap that gets hired to work around me.
Given the environment you describe, I'm confident I could find a way w/o buying anything. But that's not my point. Not sure why you took it to be so. |
