Windows Update Server?
I was wondering if it is possible to make a local windows update server. the problem is that we do so many services and we need to be able to update windows o most of them. High speed internet hepls but when you have 5 systems downloading updates at a time it still takes a long time.
I was wondering if it is possible to make a local windows update server.
the problem is that we do so many services and we need to be able to update windows o most of them. High speed internet hepls but when you have 5 systems downloading updates at a time it still takes a long time .
we have windows 2000 server installed on one of the servers and we have an evaluation copy on windows server 2003 standard edition (if it works on this one we may be able to make the manager to buy a copy) .
thanks in advance for your suggestions and replies.
the problem is that we do so many services and we need to be able to update windows o most of them. High speed internet hepls but when you have 5 systems downloading updates at a time it still takes a long time .
we have windows 2000 server installed on one of the servers and we have an evaluation copy on windows server 2003 standard edition (if it works on this one we may be able to make the manager to buy a copy) .
thanks in advance for your suggestions and replies.
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We use Microsoft Software Update Services http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/default.asp as our local windows update server. You simply point auto-update (included in Win2k-SP3 or higher or available as seperate download) to your local server. Lots of documentation on setting it up plus its free. You have to manually approve the patches but that's actually a good thing because it gives you time to test first.
You can configure Auto-Update on client using group/local policy or registry settings.
Hope that helps
-Evan
You can configure Auto-Update on client using group/local policy or registry settings.
Hope that helps
-Evan
Thanks for the reply Evan.
It says it only works for Win XP Pro and 2K Pro. Does it work for up[censored] customer's computers? For example instead of connecting to the Microsoft Windows Updater server through internet, we connect to the local server, it scans for updates and does the rest. It also has to work for several o/s that we sell here (Win XP Home, or even ME and 98SE on older systems that we service). Does such a thing exists?
we are just trying to save time on download time that it takes for over 80MB of data to be downloaded every time we install Win XP with SP1.
It says it only works for Win XP Pro and 2K Pro. Does it work for up[censored] customer's computers? For example instead of connecting to the Microsoft Windows Updater server through internet, we connect to the local server, it scans for updates and does the rest. It also has to work for several o/s that we sell here (Win XP Home, or even ME and 98SE on older systems that we service). Does such a thing exists?
we are just trying to save time on download time that it takes for over 80MB of data to be downloaded every time we install Win XP with SP1.
