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WSUS, force update of once off PCs?

Asked by Zenith63 in Operating Systems Miscellaneous

Tags: wsus, force, update

Hi,

I haven't used WSUS before so if this sounds like a stupid question please understand.
As a bit of background; we build and sell a few PCs (maybe 5-10 a week) and do IT support for small companies.  Every PC we build though we have to do Windows Updates on.  Sometimes they download quickly, but more often then not we end up throttled by MS and the updates trickle in.

I have just setup WSUS on our own internal network on a 2003 server and it seems to be working fine.  What I'm wondering though is what are my options for using this WSUS server to update the PCs we build?  The PCs would be connected to our network etc., but we'd have no reason to join them to our domain.
The conditions would be - 1. Don't really want to have to join the PCs to the domain, too messy but if it's the only way it's not the end of the world - 2. Have to be able to force an update to happen straight away, and preferrably from the client PC - 3. The PCs will be going on to sites typically without WSUS servers so once we're finished updating them any settings changed would need to revert back to updating from windowsupdate.microsoft.com or wherever is normal.

Can we make a script, stick it on a floppy to be run on each PC that changes settings, forces an update then changes the settings back?  All client PCs will be Windows XP.



Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated!
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