Friday, March 20, 2009

Software Update, both Apple and Microsoft

The following applies to machines Ch - Cn, plus the back wall machines, BWa - BWd and imac03 (which is the last back wall machine).

Ran Software Update (multiple times with reboots, it turns out) to get the remaining macs up to date.  A few were still running Safari 3.0.4, in particular, which could have caused some stability issues.  Now they are all up to Safari 3.2.1.

Also ran Microsoft Autoupdate repeatedly to get through the Microsoft Office for Mac 11.5.3 update.

I found it helpful to leave machines with software update showing "no updates available" and with Word launched, showing the (latest) version.

The only problem I know of with those machines is that three of the machines, Cl, Cm and Cn, seem to have a bogus software update server or at least bogus software update packages for Garageband and J2SE (Java).  I checked one of them and Safari is at least up to date, so they should be fine for most purposes. 

Remaining work is to get the other machines (Ca - Cg and the left wall machines Wd, We, etc.) up to date on Microsoft software, and to verify that they are all set to auto-download updates, both microsoft and apple.



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