Re: SUS - Installed but not quite working

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From: Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] (gwdibble_at_NOSPAM.frontiernet.net)
Date: 06/17/04


Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:23:57 -0400

It's possible that you ok an update on Monday. The user logs in on Tuesday
and his/her workstation detects that an update is needed. Then the update
installs at login on Wednesday. Could that be what you're seeing, or are
your updates never getting installed?

"Dale Unroe" <dale at designeers dot com> wrote in message
news:umQgGNIVEHA.1764@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Secondly, after you have approved updates and believe they should have
> been
>> installed, run WU manually on the workstation. If WU prompts you to
> install
>> the update, SUS didn't do it.
>
> This is the methodology I've used thusfar to determine that things aren't
> working properly.
>
> Last night I found the SUS group and spent some time browsing around
> looking
> for something that would be helpful. I'll have to put more time into this;
> I
> didn't find what I need.
>
> I don't care if the clients update simultaneosly but just that they get
> updated withine 24 hours of a patch getting approved by me at the SUS
> server.
>
> Thanks for the log location that is exactly what I needed to know about to
> discover what is actually occuring.
>
>
>
>



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