Windows XP Automatic Update

[Guest]

Does anyone know how exactly the auto-update feature works.. I have been
seeing this across the school district at times.. Say for example - I have a
lab full of windows xp-sp2 computers.. they are all set to reeive updateas
automatically at 5:00AM.. If I go into look at them, about 1/2 of them got
the updates from last Tueaday, and about half never automaticall downloaded
and installed the update..
All computers in that lab have been turned on 24 hours a day since last
Tuesday
Any ideas ??
Thanks in advance
Doug

 

[MowGreen]

Doug,

There was extremely heavy traffic at Windows/Microsoft Update last week.
Some of my systems received the updates, most didn't. Manually download
them either by using the Windows Update link on the Start Menu or in IE,
or obtain them from the MS Download Center:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

If the computers are networked through a server you could utilize
WSUS to push the updates to them :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updateservices/default.mspx

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
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