actually, I was looking into making a admin level patch install client for people whose users aren't local admin.
basically it would be something like a user app that checks the reg for patches installed vs. patches available in a network share, and then copies the exe to a folder on the PC
then a "service" polls that folder, looks for files, verifies it some way, installs it, and then prompts the user to restart.
It isn't much code to write, ther is really only 3 or 4 elements to it.
* client to check reg and patches (user perms) and copy new one
* client to poll for patches copied to 'special folder' local admin (system acct)
* installer to create service (admin privledges, possibly pushed by admin tool)
* possibly a code section to configure reg keys for variables like source and dest folders, freq of checking, freq of prompts to user for rebooting, etc. (minor details)
