Re: SUS or wait for WUS?
From: Fisheye (support_at_nospam.pleasefisheye.net.nz)
Date: 09/27/04
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:30:15 +1200
By the way,
If you know anyone with SUS already installed.
Or your IT support has it on their server or something.
You can back up the:
c:\SUS\content
directory from their syncronised sus server.
and restore it to yours.
It will save you the 1.2 gig+ download.
We restored it to about 8 of our clients.. saving in total 9+ gig of
downloads,
and many hours of time.
Remember to install IIS lockdown if its on a 2000 server! :)
-Fisheye
"NickC" <me@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:ONwINIzoEHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> SUS it is then, with updates remaining on Microsoft's server, they will
> all
> be cached anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
> "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in
> message
> news:u7#muBzoEHA.3728@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> That's definitely a consideration. SUS doesn't give you any choice about
>> what's downloaded, other than that you can specify localization (English
>> only, for example). It removes updates as they're replaced by others,
>> but
>> you have to store all the current updates for all the supported OS's. If
>> you don't mind the bandwidth but do mind storing the updates, keeping
>> them
>> on the MS server is the way to go.
>>
>> My advice would be to use SUS in whatever configuration fits best with
> your
>> plans, but definitely use it. My SUS install took me far less time than
>> a
>> single round of patch installs at the workstations. Over the year-plus
> I've
>> been running it, SUS must have saved me hundreds of hours patching
>> desktop
>> PCs.
>>
>>
>> "NickC" <me@somewhere.com> wrote in message
>> news:uZVtT2yoEHA.3896@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> > Dave,
>> >
>> > If SUS only downloaded the updates that were actually required then
>> > keeping
>> > them on the server would be fine but downloading masses of unnecessary
>> > crap
>> > just because it might be needed doesn't sound like a good solution to
> me.
>> >
>> > Nick
>> >
>> > "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in
>> > message
>> > news:ucFyRwyoEHA.648@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> >> Keeping the updates on the MS server means that each update will have
> to
>> > be
>> >> downloaded for each workstation, a potentially high bandwidth hog
>> > depending
>> >> on whether ISA caches the patches. I'm currently using 1.25gb for SUS
>> >> updates, which is the downside of storing them locally.
>> >>
>> >> I put a standalone 36gb drive in my SBS with no raid or backup. I use
> it
>> >> only for SUS, pagefile, and other data that can be replaced easily
>> >> from
>> >> outside sources if the drive dies (patches from other vendors,
> downloaded
>> > MS
>> >> how-to docs, etc.).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "NickC" <me@somewhere.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:uSKWjIxoEHA.516@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> >> > Is there any point installing SUS on a new SBS2003 server or should
>> >> > I
>> > wait
>> >> > until WUS is available? Our SBS2003 server has already been fully
>> > patched
>> >> > and the clients all have XP with SP2 sliptreamed. Or what about
> going
>> >> > with
>> >> > the WUS beta if it is publically available, is that stable enough
>> >> > for
> a
>> >> > production environment yet?
>> >> >
>> >> > If I do install SUS is there any disadvantage in choosing 'Keep the
>> >> > updates
>> >> > on a Microsoft Windows Update Server' as opposed to 'Save the
>> >> > updates
>> >> > to
>> >> > this local folder', that should prevent the download of over half a
> gig
>> > of
>> >> > unnecessary updates.
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> > Nick
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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