[154] in winnt
fwd: SPQuery for Windows NT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul B. Hill)
Thu May 21 11:30:55 1998
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 11:30:48 -0400
To: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
From: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I haven't looked at this program yet but it sounds like it could be quite
useful for some people.
>Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 22:58:34 -0400
>Reply-To: Russ <Russ.Cooper@RC.ON.CA>
>Sender: Windows NT BugTraq Mailing List <NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM>
>From: Russ <Russ.Cooper@RC.ON.CA>
>Subject: SPQuery for Windows NT
>To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
>
>Folks,
>
>I just thought I should let you know that there is a new utility around
>that is designed to tell you what service packs and hot fixes are
>installed on your NT boxes.
>
>SPQuery for Windows NT was developed by MTE Software, Inc., and Mark T.
>Edmead, the developer, dropped me a copy a while ago to ask whether I
>thought it was useful. Since then he's improved it and given it the
>ability to download hot fixes and install them (effectively replacing
>what I had thought to do with Hot Fix Central). It'll also tell you what
>HFs you don't have installed, doing much of what my
>http://www.ntbugtraq.com/ntfixes.asp page does.
>
>I have to say, this is one of the handiest little utilities I've come
>across in a long time. While the time-limited version you can download
>only shows you the display aspects, the full-featured network version is
>really a life-saver.
>
>Mark's asked me to put it up under the NTBugtraq downloads page
>(http://www.ntbugtraq.com/downloads/SPQuery.asp).
>
>Given how we all been struggling for so long with all these Hot Fixes, I
>figured this little bit of advertising was well worth it. Its certainly
>worth a look at the 38k version.
>
>Cheers,
>Russ - NTBugtraq moderator
>
