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QUESTION POSED ON: 27 April 2004
Is there any known reason why cumulative security patches cannot be pushed via SMS? To be more specific, Cumulative Update for MS RPS/DCOM MS-04-012 (KB828741). Our SMS Systems administrator says it cannot be done, I'm not an expert on SMS but I have read enough to know that it can be pushed.

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Before being a patching product, SMS was a robust software distribution mechanism. There's no reason why patch MS04-012 cannot be pushed using SMS. Tell your SMS Administrator to re-read the bulletin for MS04-012 and pay particular attention to the section about deploying using SMS:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-012.mspx


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