Re: SUS not working --> clients not updating, server okay

From: Adam Killian (vikti_at_bonius.com)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:31:23 -0400

Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
> I downloaded and installed SUS on a win2003 server.
> I configured the thing, it downloaded all the patches from the microsoft servers and in group policy i changed the values and the values are now on the clients (checked in registry).
> But i don't think that updates are installed, i can't find anything i event viewer.
> Name of the server is SERVER1 and clients are pointed to http://server1/autoupdate for the download and install (via group policy).
> But as i say...i don't see much traffic passing.
> Is there no log file ONLY for SUS so i can see what happens to the clients ???
> and is my link okay ? (http://server1/autoupdate ??) ==> when i type this in my explorere i come on the "software update services" from server 1
>
> thnx in advance.
> Philippe

I think you want to put http://server1/ in the group policy object. I
don't think you want the /autoupdate part. At least that's how I have
it set up, and it's working :-)

I can't tell from your post if this is what you are doing or not, but
you shouldn't be trying to use IE from the client to get updates from
SUS. It doesn't work like windowsupdate.com. If you have the GPO set
up right, the clients just download the updates in the background at the
scheduled time.

If you look in the event log (system log IIRC) on a client, you will be
able to see if it got the updates.

Adam

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