AW said:
Hi, we have 100'2 of Windows 2000 Pro PC's and a few XP
Pro PC's, how can we keep these all up to date via the
microsoft website. THese users only have Power USer
rights too.
Hi
I suggest you look into SUS to deploy security updates.
Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS) is a kind of "Windows Update"
server you can set up inside your own network, where you centrally
approve what security updates is to be distributed to the clients.
The clients use Automatic Update to connect to the SUS server and
download and install updates that apply to that computer (note that
there is no Windows Update GUI available).
It is able to deploy updates even if the user is Power User as long
as you configure the SUS client to use AUOptions 4 (automatic
download and scheduled installation).
More here:
Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/default.mspx
Patch Management Using Microsoft Software Update Services - Operations Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msm/swdist/pmsusog.asp
Note that the current version will only install critical updates and security
rollup packages (SRPs), as well as SP4 for Win2k and SP1 for WinXP.
A new version is in the works (SUS 2.0, renamed to WUS):
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
SUS needs to be installed on a IIS server. Supports Win2k, WinXP and Win2k3
clients only. SP1 for WinXP and SP3/4 for Win2k installs the WU/SUS client as
default.
Fyi, there is a separate newsgroup for SUS:
microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs
URL to the group softwareupdatesvcs for those who uses the Web
interface to access the newsgroups:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsser...t.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs
A Web site about SUS with a FAQ and a SUS forum:
http://www.susserver.com/
More SUS Web sites:
http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/sus/faq.html
http://www.faqshop.com/sus/default.htm