With the days of dial-up and pitiful 2G data connections long behind most of us, it would seem tempting to stop caring about how much data an end-user is expected to suck down that big and wide bro…
I’ve worked in an environment like this. We had a local server for Windows and Mac updates. Direct updates were blocked. It’s a solved problem, you just need developers to participate.
Interesting. The article seems to claim otherwise? How would Paul have fixed the issues he was coming across? If you had to, say, do Windows/Mac updates in the current architecture in a remote place, how would that work? I thought updates were required by MS/Apple?
They’re not required if you disable or block them. In an enterprise environment, you deploy a local update server, like I said.
As far as your personal devices are concerned, though, you’re on your own. If your iPhone refuses to do something because it wants an update, you’ll just have to wait to do that thing until you get home. We don’t have the bandwidth to spare.
Local mirrors and caching proxies.
I’ve worked in an environment like this. We had a local server for Windows and Mac updates. Direct updates were blocked. It’s a solved problem, you just need developers to participate.
Interesting. The article seems to claim otherwise? How would Paul have fixed the issues he was coming across? If you had to, say, do Windows/Mac updates in the current architecture in a remote place, how would that work? I thought updates were required by MS/Apple?
They’re not required if you disable or block them. In an enterprise environment, you deploy a local update server, like I said.
As far as your personal devices are concerned, though, you’re on your own. If your iPhone refuses to do something because it wants an update, you’ll just have to wait to do that thing until you get home. We don’t have the bandwidth to spare.