Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Khuzaima Iqbal

David C James

Michael Joseph Healy

Bruce Wayne Copeland

Gaurav Raghu Dhawan

Rajagopalan Badri Narayanan

Shafqat U Khan

Adrian Maziak

Dustin Michael Ingalls

Dattatraya B Rajpure

Jeffrey A Sutherland

Zhengkai Kenneth Pan

Jeffry B Phillips

Joseph S Calabig

Donald Y Song

Roxana Drake

Djana Milton

Kyle Smith

Vinay Deo

Nirupama Chandrasekaran

Mel MacMahon

John Leo Ellis

Adam D Welker

Robert T Wickham

Yasser Mufti

Bippen Bisht

Ingo R A G Bringemeier

Michael Healy

Ingo RAG Bringemeier

Dhawan Gaurav

Techniques for guaranteeing that a software program is executed on a machine only during designated periods of time are provided. Service windows define time periods during which software programs targeted to execute on a machine are allowed to execute on the machine. On the machine, the service windows work in conjunction with a client process that is executing on the machine to guarantee execution of the software programs by the client process only during available service windows.

Program execution service windows

A method, system, and architecture for managing computer systems is provided. A management system employs management objects (MOs) to provide administrators the ability to intuitively express the administrative intent in an information technology (IT) environment, and to act out the administrative intent based on the information gathered by the management system. Managed elements of an IT environment, such as, by way of example, hardware components, software applications, software updates, software distribution policies, configurations, settings, etc., may be expressed as MOs. Actions, such as, by way of example, detect, install/apply, remove, remediate, enumerate, etc., may be associated with the MOs. The management system manages the computer systems by deploying the appropriate MOs and their associated actions onto the computer systems, and performing the actions on the computer systems.

Object-based computer system management

A client in a plurality of clients with a same network address or similar common identifier is designated a Peer Distribution Point (PDP) agent for distributing a software application divided into several packages to the plurality of clients. The plurality of clients are part of a client-server hierarchical system comprising a Central SMS site server and several Distributing servers. The Central SMS site server generates policies for the packages that are pushed to a Distribution server assigned to the plurality of clients from where the PDP agent pulls the policies. The Central SMS site server generates the packages that are pushed to the Distributing server after the PDP agent pulls the policies. The packages are pulled by the PDP agent from the Distributing server. The other clients pull the packages from the PDP agent as and when needed.

Peer distribution point feature for system management server

The present invention provides a system and method of installing software updates to computing devices connected to an enterprise network. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and method of installing software updates based on input received from a system administrator or similar entity. When a command to install a software update is received, the present invention obtains the requested software update from a download center and causes the software update to be transmitted to client computing devices that need the functionality provided by the software update. Then the software update is installed in accordance with the input previously obtained from the system administrator.

System and method of installing software updates in a computer networking environment

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Khuzaima Iqbal