The Altiris Deployment Solution provides the ability to provision a new Windows XP system and the Altiris Notification Server with Patch Management has the ability to patch it after it's been inventoried. That process takes way too long (install patch management agent, wait for inventory, populate database, wait for server to update collections, etc). Does anyone have a process to fully patch a newly provisioned Windows XP system?

I have been designing a process that uses Automatic Updates, but would like to know how others are handling the same issue.

Thank you, in advance.