I hope someone has an answer to this because I can't find one anywhere. Currently, on our local office, we have WSUS on a regular server and not a DC, so we can configure users to be just WSUS Reporters in that same named group. We have 5 branch offices that each have their own domain controller which also has WSUS 3.0 SP1 installed on them as well, because pushing updates over MPLS just isn't good for bandwidth. With that being said, the domain controllers in our remote offices obviously don't have an option like regular servers do of going into the Manage settings and Users and Groups and just adding people to the WSUS Reporters group. Is there any way to set people to essentially "read only" for WSUS if it is on a domain controller?
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as clarification, all of the remote office servers with WSUS are downstream servers. the one here in our mian office is the main WSUS server. I'll take a look at those articles. we only have myself and 1 other person(as a backup) but we need some tech support guys to be able to view WSUS for a security report so they can see if the computer is even showing up in WSUS at all.
therein lies my problem. On a domain controller(all of ours anyway) whether you right click on My Computer and click on Manage or go to the Control Panel, there is no Users option to where you can see any groups or users. Unless you know of a different way or a reason why that wouldn't be showing up and it should be.
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by: dstewartjrPosted on 2009-07-23 at 07:05:22ID: 24925312
Not really sure why you would need to add many people to the WSUS reporters group(how many people are administering WSUS?)
I would look over both of these articles. With the combination of the information below you may be able to either drop the number of WSUS servers to 1, or get it centralized to 1 and the others would just be downstream servers.
How to configure a branch office WSUS server to get approvals centrally but download updates from Microsoft Update.
Appendix E: Configuring BITS 2.0 and 3.0 for Download Performance
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