Re: SUS - Reports

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 01/04/04 

Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 06:49:36 -0500

1) Use MBSA free from www.microsoft.com/download Run it in command line
hfnetchk mode. You can run a scan across the network with this tool, if you
know an administrator password on every computer... or you can run it
locally on each computer from the login script, if the users logging in have
local administrator privileges. This might be the most reliable method as
it checks whether the patches actually installed correctly.

2) Check the windows system logs on each client, looking for successful
installation of new patches. You can do this remotely using tools like the
free log dump tool from www.sysinternals.com, monitor the logs in realtime
using a tool like www.ipsentry.com costing around $120, etc. This is almost
as reliable, but could be a little more effort.

3) Check the IIS web server log on the server. There are even free
utilities in the Tools section at www.susserver.com that will parse the log
for you and give you a more readable report.

4) SUS server 2.0 should be available in the early part of this year and it
reportedly contains new reporting functionality. When it comes out, you
just need to update your SUS server, not the clients.

"Rafael Santos" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00ea01c3d155$df177e30$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> How to verify that clients were updated with sus?
> My englih is very rusty, sorry.

Relevant Pages

  • Software Update Server-securing IIS
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    (microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.security)
  • Clients dont look to SUS server for updates
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    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • Clients dont look to SUS server for updates
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    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • Re: Windows Update
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    (microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory)
  • Re: Deploying Microsoft patches
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