Windows Update through AD

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Is it possible to send windows updates via AD? I know I should use
SUS, but the organization which I want to do this doesn't want to
spend any money for that, but I need to find a way to automate Windows
Updates.

Perhaps by some type of logon script or something? Windows Updates
aren't distributed individually in .msi's are they?

There has to be a way…

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(e-mail address removed) (ee99ee) said
Is it possible to send windows updates via AD? I know I should use
SUS, but the organization which I want to do this doesn't want to
spend any money for that,
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Not sure what you mean by that. SUS is free to download and use.
but I need to find a way to automate Windows
Updates.

Perhaps by some type of logon script or something? Windows Updates
aren't distributed individually in .msi's are they?
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If you don't want to use SUS you could just download the SUS Group Policy
template from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyId=D26A0AEA-D274-42E6-8025-8C667B4C94E9&displaylang=en and import it as
an admin template. You can continue to point the client to the Windows Update
site (rather than a SUS server) and the settings to automate the client are
all in there.
You will need to make sure the clients have the SP1 Automatic Updates client
which is available from a link on the same web page.


Andy.
 
Andrew Mitchell said:
(e-mail address removed) (ee99ee) said


Not sure what you mean by that. SUS is free to download and use.
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I should have been more clear. The money to impliment it...

-ee99ee
 
(e-mail address removed) (ee99ee) said
I should have been more clear. The money to impliment it...
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By money, I guess you are referring to time?
The time taken to install SUS and configure the required GPO is going to be a
lot shorter than the time required to repackage the patches as MSI packages
then create the GPO to deploy them.
I had my SUS server installed and ready to start deploying patches in less
than an hour, which is a lot less time than it would take to manually create
the packages required for a GPO deployment.
 
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