RPC updates went very well. All the servers we directly maintain (can dictate downtime for) were patched within about 18 hours of release. The desktop group patched somewhere around 700 machines last night as well. It looks like people actually sorta listened to us this time on ResNet too - a preliminary scan at the end of the workday showed 161 (I think) machines patched out of around 500 which it was able to scan at the time. I set it up scanning resnet repeatedly. Since the tool can show Win98 and ME machines as unpatched, I told it to key off the previous RPC patch (I figure anyone who's vulnerable got welchia or blaster with what's been going on), and if the machine has that but not the new one send a net send message to the IP telling them to visit windowsupdate. It takes about 20-25 minutes to scan resnet, and it's a while(1) loop. We'll see how many of the machines show as patched tomorrow... :) I also got paging hacked together for now again, and at least most of the server side of the nursing handhelds done. After work I spent some time and played with program called
Gallery designed for managing photos online. It's cool because it's all server side and php scripts, and seems to be very quick. After poking with it and throwing it on one of my machines at home, I decided to do a more real-world test and threw a
pretty big test up on a box I have sitting around for testing. Turns out the firewall rules from this fun windows issue caused it to not be available to the world so I had to hijack my laptop's wireless IP until it gets it's own. It seemed to handle both local and http batch importing pretty well for a couple smaller albums, although individual had problems on that machine (I think it may have more to do with the connection speed though). I'm currently doing a mass import of over 300 pictures through http to test how it handles a big load. Seeing as the server is a rather low-end pentium and it's doing image manipulation and is a significant way through, I'm rather impressed. We'll let a few people pound on it tomorrow and see what they say.