Re: SUS-Clients

From: Miha Pihler (mihap-news_at_atlantis.si)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:50:57 +0100

Hi Jacob,

SUS client is provided in Windows 2000 SP3 or Windows XP SP1 or newer
operating system. If you have Windows 2000 SP3 you can use SUS to deploy
critical patches, and e.g. SP4 just like you can use SUS to deploy Windows
XP SP2.

If you don't have Windows 2000 SP3 and Windows XP SP1, you can first
download and deploy Automatic Updates client. You can download it from here:
Automatic Updates June 2002
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/recommended/susclient/default.asp

How did you configure your clients?

Since you don't have Active Directory you will have to edit or import
registry settings to your clients. To make things a little easier, you can
e.g. configure one station and export the registry settings. Now all you
have to do is import these settings to your other computers...

Here is a very good white paper on how to deploy SUS server:

Software Update Services Deployment White Paper
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/susdeployment.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/default.mspx

Here is a Newsgroup dedicated to software update:
microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

Mike

"Jacob van Iwaarden" <spamtome@ewetel.net> wrote in message
news:cm2j83$qb$1@news1.ewetel.de...
> Hello NG,
> I hope I am right here. I have following problem: For testing, I installed
> a SUS-Server (Actual version from MS) on a standalone W2003 with all
> Fixes. The SUS-server works fine so far, it receives the patches from MS.
> The only ;-(( problem is, I cannot get the clients contacting the
> SUS-server. From MS I downloaded a MSI-File which tells me: It will only
> run on a W2k maschine with SP2 or above or on XP. What does it think I
> started it on? On XP with SP2 ;-((
>
> I checked the Web and found a lot "solutions". Most of them say they work
> on ADS. But we do not have ADS! I cannot get my Boss to ADS so far.
>
> Does anyone know a Way to get XP Workstations to contact a local
> SUS-Server? Please in a way that even I can understand? ;-))
>
> THX in advance
> Jacob
>

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