Actually that would be a huge help bc it would cut the Remote Discovery events in half. It's what we assumed we were going to do. But it doesn't seem...

That's how we are running it. There is one run of the installer, but every instance kicks off an instance install

"C:\Software\SQL\SQL 2008r2 SP2\"SQLServer2008R2SP2-KB2630458-x64-ENU.exe /qs /IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms /Action=Patch /AllInstances

1. Has any one had any experience with a system with this many databases:

I currently manage approx 6500 databases. They range from a couple hundred MBs to 50 GB...

I'm trying to avoid the job approach, but it's looking like my only option...

Thanks for the respones. I ran that idea past PSS the first time the error occured. They said it's not necessary in 2005. I'm not convinced that they are right