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Windows Update for Remote Laptop Restricted Users

Asked by matrixnz in Windows Network Security

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Scenario: 800 Desktops, 250 Laptops, Windows 2003 Servers, Active Directory, located at 10 Sites across the country.  Users are members of the "USERS" Group.  One Windows 2003 Server running WSUS at central Site, all clients, Desktops and Laptops, connecting and updating successfully across the WAN.  Large number of Laptop Users work overseas for 2 weeks - 3 months at a time, users connect to system using Remote Office, Dialup.

Question: How do I get the Windows Updates to update these users Laptops while overseas?

We do insert a Local Admin account on the system with a password, which expires depending on the length of their trip away.  The users need to contact us for the password as this is only in cases where the user requires Administrative rights for legitimate purposes.  However we prefer the user doesn't logon to this account at all, we could allow users to use this to run Windows Update manually, but I believe this would be combersome and would have to remind the users to update on a regular basis.  Also the list of updates from Microsoft for Windows and Office differ from the set we push out on a regular basis, for e.g. we do not push Service Packs and prefer all our systems to be identical until we have tested these thoroughly.

Question: Has anyone opened their WSUS Server via the Firewall?
Question: Has anyone used a secondary server outside the Firewall?  If so is their anything to consider when taking such a step.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers


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