Common solution?

[paintbrush]

Scheduling system tasks has become a big problem nowadays. we need to check from viruses, spyware and updates everyday. Any ideas for a single frontend system for managing all these tasks.

[techAdmin]

av schedules itself, windows schedules itself, what's the problem?

Of course, depends on the size of the network. If it's big enough, you want the updates to be stored on a local server to be distributed to the network.

And if you get too sick of av and spyware products etc, start looking into linux for some of the workstations.