WUAU Group policy problems

[Owen]

Hi,

I have been trying to use the WUAU.adm group policy to
point my WIN2K SP4 machines to my SUS server for their
updates. However it does not seem to be working.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Should I
disable the update policy that is theire before I add WUAU?

many thanks.

Owen.

 

[Karin Galli [MS]]

Check this article! It explains how to do it!

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

Cheers!


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[Guest]

Hi,

Thanks for that, I've seen that page and followed the
instructions. But I'm still not sure if it is working
correctly and the clients are going to the SUS server. Is
there a way to check this?

Many thanks,

Owen

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Take a look at the Windows Update.log file in the system root folder. It
will tell you what the WUAU client is trying to do.

Once you've verified (by looking at the Windows Update registry keys) that
the policy settings are being delivered to the
client, I'd repost any questions in microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs.

Bear in mind that there's eomwhere around a 24 hour delay before a system
will hit the SUS server. The way I work around this when deploying new
systems is to hard-code the reigstry settings so that the system thinks it's
missed its polling cycle and will poll within minutes of booting.

Cheers

Oli