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About Windows Update Service

Asked by skykuhl in Microsoft Server, Windows 2003 Server

Greetings,

I have a windows 2003 server that is running windows update service.  I have not used that service too much before and I noticed that my client machines hadn't updated to win xp sp3 so I started to look into it and figured out that I needed to approve the updates (I didn't originally configure it).

Anyway I have approved a bunch of updates today and my questions are these:

1. for a 20 seat network is it recommended even to use this service?

2. If I have approved updates, I am assuming that they will be installed in the proper order and such, however I don't know if I can see when the updates are being applied or if I can force them to be applied to a certain machine.  For example if I wanted to install IE 8 on a particular machine.  I don't think it will be a big issue because once it catches up with the past updates, it shouldn't be a problem now that I see how it works.

Thanks very much.

Sky
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