Re: SBS 2008 migration - Update policies missing

Your best bet is posting the the SBS 2008 newsgroup
This one is for older versions of SBS
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NNTP Access to SBS2008 and EBS2008 Newsgroups:
To gain access groups via NNTP (Which is preferred by a lot of people)

First you need to set up an access password as detailed Here:
https://connect.microsoft.com/cougar/messageboards/community.aspx

If this is the first time you set this up it may take up to 6 hours for
Microsoft to set your password.

After 6hrs you can configure your NNTP Reader
(Doing this before 4 or 6 hrs will result in no connection.)

To access the Microsoft Connect newsgroups, if you wish to use a newsreader
program, such as Outlook Express and Windows Mail that supports multiple
news
servers. (The instructions are below)
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To add a news server to Outlook Express:

Start Outlook Express.
On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
Click Add, and then click News.
In the Internet Connection Wizard, follow the instructions until you reach
the Internet News Server Name page.
Enter "connectnews.microsoft.com" for the News (NNTP) server, select "My
news server requires me to log on," and then click Next.
Enter your newsgroup ID and password, and then click Next.
Click Finish, and then click Close.

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To add a news server to Windows Mail:

Start Windows Mail.
On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
Click Add and then click Newsgroup Account.
In the Internet Connection Wizard, follow the instructions until you reach
the Internet News Server Name page.
Enter "connectnews.microsoft.com" for the News (NNTP) server, select "My
news server requires me to log on," and then click Next.
Enter your newsgroup ID and password, and then click Next.
Click Finish, and then click Close.
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Once you are configured this direct links will hook you up.
(or you can manually search and add the newsgroups.)

For NNTP News Access of SBS2008 Newsgroup:
news://connectnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.connect.windows.server.sbs08



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Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]
Co-Author, Windows Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed
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MVPs do not work for Microsoft
Please do not submit questions directly to me.

"Alex Peters" <Alex Peters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:41D7D4E1-3606-48CD-A8D8-0A6B87E83E82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have successfully migrated from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008, however, the Update
Services Server Computers Policy is missing. (page 73 of the MS SBS 2008
migration guide).

As I understand this should be under Group Policy Objects; other policies
are present such as "windows SBS user policy".

WSUS seems to be working, however it has updates loaded for the old SBS 2003
server. However, clicking "change the software update settings" in the
console gives an error "update services group policy settings are not
available".

Unless I can edit the GPO for updates I cannot remove the old SBS 2003
updates as specified in the migration guide, which are building up !

Grateful for any assistance.

Regards

Alex Peters

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