Re: WSUS question/problem

Susan,

Yes, I followed all the steps, and it's still not showing any computers!
Uggh! I'm totally frustrated over this. It shouldn't be this difficult to
get setup.

I'm going to uninstall it all, and then start over. <crosses fingers>

--
Torrey Lauer
Modern Travel Services
moderntravel DOT net

Rainbow Sky Travel
rainbow sky travel DOT net
"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:e88pmdSoFHA.3036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Go back and redo your group policy to just edit from the top domain
>
> In Group Policy Object Editor, choose In Server Management, expand
> Advanced Management, expand Group Policy Management, expand Forest, expand
> Domains, and then click your SBS domain. Right mouse click to ?Create and
> link a GPO here?.
>
> Name your policy something descriptive. Click OK.
>
> Now right mouse click and ?edit? and then expand Computer Configuration,
> expand Administrative Templates, expand Windows Components, and then click
> Windows Update.
>
> In the details pane, click Specify Intranet Microsoft update service
> location. Type the HTTP URL of the same WSUS server in both Set the
> intranet update service for detecting updates and Set the intranet
> statistics server. For example, type http:///servername:8530/ in both text
> boxes, where /servername/ is the name of your WSUS server.
>
> Click OK, and then configure the behavior of Automatic Updates as per your
> previously determined risk level. You can offer up patches to
> workstations, or force them to patch.
>
> You can if you like, enter a server name in ?Enable client side targeting?
> to ensure that the workstations will ?check in? with the server
> appropriately [please note that there is a known issue with some
> workstations not reporting into the server, either use this as a work
> around or obtain this hotfix for the server - FIX: IIS 6.0 may send an
> "HTTP 100 Continue" response in the middle of the response stream when you
> send a POST request: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=898708
>
>
>
> Torrey Lauer wrote:
>
>>Susan,
>>
>>Okay, I've trie dit your way, and I've tried it Mariette's way. Neither
>>of them are working! Neither method shows any computers in WSUS.
>>
>>Now what?
>>
>>
>
> --
> An open letter to the Security Community::
> http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/12/12/23540.aspx


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