Ninite Pro is surely one of the best tools to have in the MSP's 'toolbox', the time it saves is massive.
Basically once you have subscribed you download a small application from the Ninite website. From this you can choose any or all of the 80+ Windows applications and utilities to install on the PC or server very quickly and easily. Essentially there's one click to choose each application and then one more to install. Ninite then fetches the very latest version of the application from the vendors website and silently installs the application without any of the accompanying junk or toolbars that occasionally attach themselves to utilities. The correct 32 or 64-bit version of the software will also be selected automatically.
Ninite can also upgrade installed applications just by selecting one option and then clicking 'Install' and Ninite takes care of itself.
The Pro version also allows you to use the command line to control Ninte even further. In an MSP environment, the power of this is brilliant. Ninite already has instructions for integrating Ninite into Laseya, GFI, Level Platforms, Labtech and many more. The ability to script installs and updates to an estate of PCs and Servers is a winner.
When you run Ninite Pro it downloads all the executables to a folder. With command line switches, this can also be used to create both offline installers for copying onto a thumb drive if you know you won't have a good net connection. You can also put the downloads folder onto a network share to save on bandwidth. Ninite checks the latest version online with the latest in the cache folder and only gets the file once off the net and then other PCs get the file from the central cache.
There is also a Linux version, currently with about 15 apps.
Overall this one tool has saved us endless hours installing and updating hundreds of PCs and is worth every penny and then some! 5 Gold Stars!!!