Re: SUS/Windows update problems

MCSE wrote:
Windows 2003 Standard SUS (NOT WSUS) server is configured via Group
Policy to automatically download and install updates to client PCs
at 9AM daily (the settings are correctly grayed out and show 9AM);
however, when you login as administrator to a Windows Pro client
workstations configured to pull updates from the SUS (NOT WSUS)
server shows a long list of updates that were not automatically
installed (KB899589, KB913446, etc).

Anyone know how to fix this?

While I do not know the answer to your particular query.. I know that you
should start thinking about changing that to a WSUS server (and who knows -
that might be the best answer to your query after all.)

Support life cycle for Microsoft Software Update Services 1.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905682

While that statement may be the very reason for your "capitalization" of
"not wsus" in your OP, it would be better to start doing it now whether than
wait the 7 months and lose all support for SUS and still not be upgraded,
IMHO.

Description of Software Update Services and Windows Server Update Services
changes in content for 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918043

Description of Software Update Services and Windows Server Update Services
changes in content for 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894199

Sorry I do not know the answer to your query directly - but I do know you
would have known about these not-installed patches and which computers they
weren't installed upon just by running a report in WSUS - where you were
given little to no information in SUS.

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