MS Software Update Service server


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Yea it's awesome. SUS syncs w/windows update and distrubutes them to you client machines. So instead of manually doing windows update on each machine, all of the updates come from your SUS server. SUS currently only handles critical updates, but SUS 2 will do all updates plus MS Office updates I am told. What exactly is your question?

My question is what's the best way to deploy the updates

I have the SUS installed on our Windows 2000 server

but it will be updating mostly XP clients

do you use a group policy to schedule and install updates?

and do I just use the WINS name for server location?

like

http://server01

This is what I imported into the registry

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]

"update Server"="WUServer=\"http://myserver1\""

"status server"="WUStatusServer=\"http://myserver1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]

"UseWUServer"=dword:00000001

"AuOptions"=dword:00000003

but when I check the windowsupate log

I still see that it's getting the update from the MS server instead of my SUS server, which is already sync'd with MS

any suggestions?

thanks

  drummingislife said:
SUS syncs w/windows update and distrubutes them to you client machines. So instead of manually doing windows update on each machine, all of the updates come from your SUS server.

You could also set up to d/l directly from the Web using a GPO, if you don't need a SUS server. That functionality has been there for a while, no need to manually update each client.

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