SUS - anyone used it?

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Rob Meade

Hi all,

I have a small network running, Windows Server 2003, 2 clients running
Windows XP pro.

I have just (last night) downloaded SUS from Microsoft, and have it
installed on the server - all went ok - it downloaded the 239 (718mb!) worth
of updates since day dot.. When it had just finished installing it told me
that I needed to change any servers/clients to point to
http://<computer_name> etc - having looked at the 2 clients' Automatic
Updates I see no way of configuring this, went back to the SUS website on MS
(http://www.microsoft.com/sus) and it mentions a SUS client - but according
to its detail - I dont need it because of the SP's I have installed etc.
Therefore, can anyone suggest how I am supposed to configure the clients to
look to my SUS server for the updates instead of MS etc?

In addition - the SUS server itself will need to have updates applied to it,
and should be updated via itself (if that makes any sense)...

Some info would be appreciated.

Regards

Rob
 
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Hi Danny, thank you for your reply.

I was unable to use the link (above) as it returns a page cannot be found
error.

However, since my previous post I have amended the Group Policy (or rather
added a new one) and now when I check the Automatic Updates on the server
itself and the 2 client PC's the options are all greyed out - marvellous (I
assume) - its now looking at my SUS for the updates. Thing is - there were
5 that were newer than all of the ones installed on all of the machines and
yet so far nothing has been triggered.

I have approved all of the patches, admittedly some of them are not relevant
to the machines so I wasn't expecting to see anything on the clients, but on
the server there was a patch for Windows 2003 server and yet its not showing
as ready to install or anything...bit odd...not sure if its running or
not...

Regards

Rob
 
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