WSUS for remote clients

tolinrome asked

on 2010-09-07

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We have WSUS 3.0 and all of our clients are on the domain, including our remote clients. None of our clients have local admin privledges. our AU policy is GPO based and updates need to be approved on the WSUS before installationon the clients. I want to know how our remote employees receive their updates from the WSUS or from the internet.

1.How do the remote clients communicate with the WSUS for downloads, through the VPN? How does that work, once the update is approved, the client logs onto the VPN and they are told by he WSUS what updates are aproved and then they download/install those updates from the internet or the WSUS?

2. How can I configure the remote clients to communicate with the WSUS while they are not on the VPN? At leasst to communicate what they are approved to download then download it from the internet directly?

Thanks!

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FunkyBrown

Commented: 2010-09-07

You have to look at it this way. Think of your PC as actually being in your network when it is connected to the VPN. That is the best way to look at it. So when your laptop is connected via the VPN, it will download the updates from the WSUS server, depending on how your settings are. As far as your clients communicating via the WSUS server when not connected to the VPN, I don't think this is realistic as far as security is concerned. Do you have a firewall set up protecting your network?

tolinrome

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Commented: 2010-09-07

I understand that while on the vpn the clients are on the network, but since a client may only be on for a few minutes and not long enough to download/install updates and to save bandwith I would like them to update via the internet if possible.

Do you know for sure if while on the vpn the clients are actually downloading the updates from the WSUS or are only notified of the approvals and then downloading from the internet?

Also, I think it should be possible to update via the WSUS through the internet. Of course we have a firewall.

Thanks!

FunkyBrown

Commented: 2010-09-07

Definitely the computers will download the updates via the WSUS server when connected through the VPN. How often do you push out updates via WSUS? There should be a setting in which you can set PC's to download the updates directly from the internet. I will have a look on my WSUS server. We are currently running our updates through our SCCM server though so I need to familiarize myself with the WSUS console.

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tolinrome

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Commented: 2010-09-22

Excellent, thanks.

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