lol unfortunately we're only about 200-300 people but with a small full time IT team and with a mandate to provide large scale type support so all out major applications are deployed. Normally that's fine but occasionally we run into tricky ones ..... like every recent AutoCAD update!
For some reason 2007 was about the last version that deployed with relative ease. after that I think AutoDesk changed the methodology and it went horribly wrong. We had to give up on 2009 in the end as the group responsible just couldn't get it to work. For some reason 2010 then got kicked to me to sort.
The .Net issue is that I think either MS have updated the original SP1 that was a bit buggy or the machines have not installed it correctly. Either way the result is the same - fatal errors and grey hair.
I'm looking into the WSUS angle to see if it can be removed and the newer more stable update installed. I'll let you know how I get on with that route as it'll affect the entire corporation which is always fun. It may be that I just script the install from a server for those that need it and leave the rest
I've worked out how to get the component parts to install in order now and just have to test it. when that's done, I'll post it up for people.
2011?!? don't even say such things yet! lol
Tim/.
Oh, thanks for the comments on the blog. Always nice to know it is at least vaguely useful to someone other than myself.