SUS and non-admin users

[Michel van der Veen]

Hi,
We have a Windows 2003 server with SUS installed. Our
clients are all XP machines. When I log in on a XP machine
as an admin-user, I get a message that there are new
updates available. This is how it should be, because I
told SUS on the server to deploy a new update. But when I
log on to the XP machine as a NON-admin user, nothing
seems to happen. I know that I don't get a "notification-
balloon", but when I look in "software", no update is
installed.
Does anyone have the same problem, or better yet, a
sollution ?
Thanx very much.

Michel

 

[Paul]

You could set SUS to apply the updates as soon as they are
downloaded. But this makes testing patches harder.

 

[IBTerry [MSFT]]

Non-admins will not see the SUS pop-up notification. You should probably
use the SUS install option of 4 which is download and automatically
install.

More information on SUS can be found in the SUS white paper.
Software Update Services Deployment White Paper
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/susdeployment.mspx

Automatic update client download (You only need to install Automatic
Updates on computers running Windows 2000 with SP2 or Windows XP without
SP1)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/recommended/susclient/default
.asp

Software Update Services 1.0 with Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A7AA96E4-6E41-4F54-
972C-AE66A4E4BF6C&displaylang=en

Software Update Services 1.0 ADM File for Service Pack 1(Win2K w/ the
latest SP should already have the ADM file.)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D26A0AEA-D274-42E6-
8025-8C667B4C94E9&displaylang=en

328010 How to Configure Automatic Updates by Using Group Policy or Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328010

IBTerry [MSFT]
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