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WSUS - Anyone good with it
- Thread starter *JimmyJ*
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Been trying to work out the best way to push the updates out to the clients wortkstations. At present I have setup a test deployment group, a couple of pc's from each department. I have setup automatic approval for security and critial updates, for the above group. All clients get their WSUS settings from group policy, to download and install the approved updates on a Saturday night - providing they leave there pc's turned on. We would then evaluate the updated for a week or so, address any issues which the new updates may cause, before pushing out to the rest of the orginaisation. Does this practice sound good enough.
Would you guys recommend anything else?
Cheers
Would you guys recommend anything else?
Cheers
ChrisR
ClioSport Club Member
SCCM is great, all the cool kids have it.
Patching is more of a manual process with to over WSUS as you don't have the auto approval of patches, you've got ot go in and grab them, assign them to your deployments etc. But it's much better for managing things.
Should be a trial available here http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/configuration-manager.aspx, the cal pricing can work out expensive though unless your on a good licensing plan that has the CAL bundles.
Patching is more of a manual process with to over WSUS as you don't have the auto approval of patches, you've got ot go in and grab them, assign them to your deployments etc. But it's much better for managing things.
Should be a trial available here http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/configuration-manager.aspx, the cal pricing can work out expensive though unless your on a good licensing plan that has the CAL bundles.
Audi TT Stronic
Almost exactly what I do, except I have a small test lab that it goes to first, then a guinea pig group, then mass deployment.
Set up reports so you get weekly emails highlighting any systems that have had problems updating which you can then address on a system by system basis or if fix via some scripting.
Will be looking into SCCM very shortly. Cheers guys sound mint
As for WSUS. Does anyone have any little handy scripts which will enable me to force a client to check in and download the necessary updates from the WSUS server. I have tried running the wuauclt /detectnow and also the wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow switches but no joy.Updates statusfor necessary critial updates are set to install but for some reason the updates are not downloading at the necessary group policy time. Any ideas
As for WSUS. Does anyone have any little handy scripts which will enable me to force a client to check in and download the necessary updates from the WSUS server. I have tried running the wuauclt /detectnow and also the wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow switches but no joy.Updates statusfor necessary critial updates are set to install but for some reason the updates are not downloading at the necessary group policy time. Any ideas
Check the log file to see why its not downloading.
1. wuauclt /detectnow
2. Open c:\windows\windowsupdate.log
Should start like:
2011-07-25 16:55:20:467 408 3228 AU Triggering AU detection through DetectNow API
2011-07-25 16:55:20:468 408 3228 AU Triggering Online detection (non-interactive)
2011-07-25 16:55:20:472 408 120c AU #############
2011-07-25 16:55:20:472 408 120c AU ## START ## AU: Search for updates
