Re: SUS management - Any Ideas?
From: Ron Chamberlin (ronchamberlin_at_msnmsn.com)
Date: 02/12/04
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:42:17 -0500
Robbo,
You might have better luck with your question in the softwareupdatesvcs NG.
Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
"robbo" <rstewart@laneford.com.au> wrote in message
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>I have tried numorous failed attempts of setting up our SUS server on our
>local domain. It seriously does not like me. I have installed the latest
>version of SUS and MBSA on the server and my client machine runs the latest
>version of MBSA and also the "SUSadmin" utility to set up options for the
>SUS server.
> In the options in SUSadmin, I have set the following options:
>
> Specify the name your clients use to locate this update server:
> Server name: SERVER1 (our servername)
>
> and this server is syncronising directly from the microsoft updates site.
>
> Our server is running small business server 2000 which supports Group
> policy management and all that. I have tried to set these options for
> automatic updates so that our clients connect to the server in opposed to
> microsoft updates site (no offence all you microsoft guys out there ;P) as
> our server stores all updates from syncronisation locally. Under the group
> policy setting I have tried setting the "local intranet server used to
> aquire updates" to both server1 and http:\\server1 and neither has really
> done anything.
>
> running MBSA from dos, there is an option to call a program "mbsacli.exe"
> and specify a SUS server
> I have tried the following:
> mbsacli.exe /sus "server1"
> mbsacli.exe /sus "SERVER1"
> mbsacli.exe /sus "http://server1/susadmin"
> mbsacli.exe /sus "http://SERVER1/SUSadmin"
> mbsacli.exe /sus "http://server1"
>
> and so on. None of these really work, I either get an "invalid sus server"
> "could not get list of approved updates" or it connects to microsof again.
> This is really frustrating. Any ideas on how to fix this?? If I can get it
> scanning correctly here, then I could fix the group policy.
>
> SUS services is installed on the D:\ on our server
> MBSA is installed on the C:\ of our server
> Just in case that bears any importance....
>
>
>
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