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Does anyone have a link to a good and easy to understand guide to Software Update Service?
Hi there,
Does anyone have a link to a good and easy to understand guide to Software Update Service? I'm struggling with the MSoft white paper. I've got access to http://servername/susadmin but am stuck when it comes to where the clients look to for updates and how to configure them in general.
Cheers
Chris
Does anyone have a link to a good and easy to understand guide to Software Update Service? I'm struggling with the MSoft white paper. I've got access to http://servername/susadmin but am stuck when it comes to where the clients look to for updates and how to configure them in general.
Cheers
Chris
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Quote Jammypack
" don't have a link to give you, but if you're using SUS, then I assume you're in the 'Set Options' page, since that's where the config is done.
Here are the settings from the top down:
1) select a proxy server configuration - does your SUS server need to use a proxy server to get to the internet? If so, enter the info here. If not, then leave this section.
2) Specify the name your clients use to locate this update server: plug in the fqdn (hostname.domainname) of your SUS server
3) Select which server to sync content from - choose MS servers, OR another SUS server if you have one (I assume not, so choose MS)
4) Select how you want to handle new versions of previously approved updates - if you approve update x, and two months later there is a change made to that update, do you want to have to reapprove it?
5) Select where you want to store updates: choose local folder
6) Select whichever languages you are running
Done!
Now use the 'Synchronize server' page to set a schedule for downloading the updates, and use the 'approve updates' page to approve the updates for deployment
Lastly, use GPO to push the client settings out... "
Cheers for that. Where on the server are the clients actually picking the updates from? is servername.domain all that's reqd?
What about shares, or IIS? Are the clients using http to get the updates from the SUS server?
" don't have a link to give you, but if you're using SUS, then I assume you're in the 'Set Options' page, since that's where the config is done.
Here are the settings from the top down:
1) select a proxy server configuration - does your SUS server need to use a proxy server to get to the internet? If so, enter the info here. If not, then leave this section.
2) Specify the name your clients use to locate this update server: plug in the fqdn (hostname.domainname) of your SUS server
3) Select which server to sync content from - choose MS servers, OR another SUS server if you have one (I assume not, so choose MS)
4) Select how you want to handle new versions of previously approved updates - if you approve update x, and two months later there is a change made to that update, do you want to have to reapprove it?
5) Select where you want to store updates: choose local folder
6) Select whichever languages you are running
Done!
Now use the 'Synchronize server' page to set a schedule for downloading the updates, and use the 'approve updates' page to approve the updates for deployment
Lastly, use GPO to push the client settings out... "
Cheers for that. Where on the server are the clients actually picking the updates from? is servername.domain all that's reqd?
What about shares, or IIS? Are the clients using http to get the updates from the SUS server?
you don't need to create a share or do anything special in IIS - as long as the clients pickup the correct server in GPO, then they'll get served up the updates from that server.
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Jammypak, the GPO asks for the intranet address for the SUS server. What do I put here?
If I use http://servername in a web browser it just comes back with an error page.
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Chris
If I use http://servername in a web browser it just comes back with an error page.
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Chris
that's normal...
you still just need to put the server name in
the client doesn't need to load up the sus server in a browser, the updates are pulled by the client on the schedule set in the GPO. only the admin needs to load the \susadmin site to approve and manage things.
you still just need to put the server name in
the client doesn't need to load up the sus server in a browser, the updates are pulled by the client on the schedule set in the GPO. only the admin needs to load the \susadmin site to approve and manage things.
please use the official side,
it provide you through all what sus can do
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updateservices/evaluation/previous/default.mspx