

Its tagline is, ".since security, time, and bandwidth are money." It's aimed at streamlining the process of updating your clients and servers through an innovative use of powerful, intelligently-written scripts to download updates directly from Microsoft's public catalog servers and deploy them. WSUS Offline Update is a simple, lightweight, elegant solution, released free to use under the GNU GPL license. Adding to the complexity is the fact that updates are released at an alarming rate, with dozens of new patches being released weekly (i.e., Patch Tuesday) multiplied by the number of different operating systems supported times the number of devices in the organization, and it's easy to see how the patch management process slips under the radar of even the largest IT departments.

These often come with expensive licensing fees or require extensive hardware requirements that may make it difficult to manage and/or seek purchase approval from management.
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