Re: WSUS GPO: Specify intranet Microsoft Update service location

I don't quite know what you mean by "the site is down".
If the workstation is using an IP in one of that site's subnets,
it will be controlled by the site-linked GPO for that site.
Whether the DC of that site is down, or the WSUS of that
site is down is another matter. The client will still find a
DC and get the site-linked GPO for the IP it is using (the
site it is in). If that means its site-local WSUS is down
then that means it will not be updating with its WSUS.
You can use DNS to have more than one machine's IP
returned when the site's WSUS hostname is resolved.

"Bob" <86c6c2e6-2146512712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A2E5341F-EA9A-4AEC-B682-4E1CA9CF9A4C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
One thing I'm afraid of however:

If the site is down, the workstation will naturally log onto the next
closest site. I'm thinking when that happens, the workstation will now
become
a memeber of two WSUS servers. I don't know if this is necessarily a bad
thing, but I'm thinking I'd like to prevent that if possible.
--
Bob


"Jack Doyle" wrote:

When you configured Sites and Services in Active Directory, you
associated subnets with sites. Your computer will automatically be
assigned to the correct site when it logs in based on the subnet that
it is part of.

You don't technically assign computers to sites... it is dynamic.

Regards,
Jack Doyle, Systems Engineer
ScriptLogic Corporation
http://www.scriptlogic.com




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