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WSUS SP1 - Local Admin Required?

WSUS SP1 - Do the client have to be local administrators to load updaes if they are configured to get updates from an internal WSUS Server?

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I restaged a PC and set it to point to a WSUS server that I am going to deploy to the entire enviroment. When I was completing the setup of the workstation I was geting the update pop-ups and the updates were installing. When the user logged backon (non-local admin) The updates just stopped all together. It has been two days and no more updates have loaded. I am set to option 4 in the GPO and even tried to schedule the updates - nothing yet? any thoughts as to why???

aissim

I'm afraid this is by design...although you're not the only person that dislikes it. I want to say that critical updates will still install (silently in the background) - but everything else is left to an admin account.

Since the updates make changes to the operating system it goes against what non-admins are allowed to do...hence the dilemma...

I'll do a little digging to see if there are any workarounds out there.

aissim

Just looked back at my GPO and thought of something else...have you tried enabling the "Allow non-administrators to receive update notifications"? You could try option 3 with this setting enabled.