Windows Update Process

[Mark]

I've downloaded all the XP updates to a network share
using the Windows Catalog. How do I configure my users to
auto update there computers from this share location? or
am I asking to much.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Find out how Windows Update Services (WUS)-the next
version of Software Update Services (SUS)-can help simplify
and automate the deployment of patches and updates in your
organization.
Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/default.mspx

Please Visit The Official Windows Update Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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"Mark" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message:

| I've downloaded all the XP updates to a network share
| using the Windows Catalog. How do I configure my users to
| auto update there computers from this share location? or
| am I asking to much.

 

[Roger Abell]

There is no automation for the updates you have downloaded
from the catalog. At each machine each update can be manually
triggered (dbl-click) or one can write a batch file that will run
them one after the other. Writing such a batch is a little more
work thatn it should be as each update many have a different
syntax that should be used in the batch file. See the KB or the
ms0x-0yx security bulletin for the syntax of each.

If you own a server version of Windows, consider installing
SUS (WUS once it release) to fully automate updating your
clients.