Re: Technet vs. Windows Update

Anando,
Sounds like a fairly decent solution to the problem, but why doesn't technet
provide the same thing rather than, again, having to DOWNLOAD every update...
when they are all supposedly on the CD's/DVD's???
Anyway, I thought I would give it a shot... downloaded the server and
client... thought I would install the client on a XP Pro SP2 machine first,
and I immediately get the error:
"Microsoft Windows Update Auto Update requires Windows 2000 SP2 or Windows
XP."
As I said, this is on a XP Pro SP2 machine... is this an indication of the
operability of this application?

"Anando [MS-MVP]" wrote:

Hello Patrick,

MVP Daniel Petri has done an excellent job at explaining Microsoft Software Update Service:

http://www.petri.co.il/sus.htm

I am guessing you are looking at something similar.

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"Patrick L. - US" <Patrick L. - US@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am the owner of a computer repair shop.
We reinstall the OS on several machines per day due to excessive spyware
and/or virus infections.
We are CONSTANTLY downloading windows updates for machines that we have
formatted and installed a fresh copy of 98/XP/2000/etc.
I subscribed to Technet in hopes of a quicker and more efficient way to
update these "fresh installs", but the information is overwhelming!!

Let's take one of the most common scenarios as an example... and maybe you
all can tell me if this is possible:
Fresh (re)installation of XP Pro on a machine:::: We first install a local
copy of XP SP2... then what?
1)Shuffle through the (in excess of 30+) CD's since November of 2004,
installing each and every update/download/hotfix?
2)Or... is there a way to load all of the current updates/hotfixes/downloads
that are contained in my technet CD's, as well as the ones that we get each
month - onto my server and point Windows/Microsoft Update utility there
instead of Microsoft's servers, letting that utility show me which updates
are there that this particular machine doesn't have, giving me the option to
install them?

It would seem that MS would love to make this easy for us, taking a load off
of their servers and Internet connections, but I haven't found an easy
solution???
@$@#$%^



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