Re: Understanding WSUS

I understand the concept, I really do. I am sure this is a learning curve as
I have used Shavlik and UpdateExpert without any issues. I have pretty much
done what you state by following those directions.
This is the part I don't understand:

When I go to WSUS the home page shows this: "Updates needed by computers 49"
and below that is shows "Computers needing updates 17". If I click the link
up at the top right (where home, update, reports, computers, options are)
called Updates, I change the view to show All Updates and in the list in the
Approval column is shows Detect only. I can click on the left, Change
approval and choose Install. Is this bogus info or do I need to go to each
update and change them from Detect only to Install?

If I go into Reports and view the status to Needed for the workstations, it
shows quite a bit needed. Why isn't WSUS installing them on the
workstations?
If I go to Computers and view Workstations and click the status on a
computer it shows the Approval as Detect Only and Status on several critical
updates as needed. It has been several days since I set this up.

Any help of clearer explanation would be great,
Rick F

"Chad A. Gross [SBS MVP]" <chad.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:ulgGKjzoFHA.572@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Rick -
>
> What I do is create two separate GPOs to control WSUS updates. The first
> GPO is linked to the My Business | Computers | SBSComputers OU (where the
> client machine accounts live by default), and has Configure Automatic
> Updates enabled and configured for level 4: Auto download and schedule the
> install.
>
> The second GPO is linked to the Domain Controllers OU (where our SBS
> machine account lives), and has the Configure Automatic Updates enabled
> and configured for level 3: Auto download & notify for install.
>
> SO - when updates are approved for installation via the WSUS console,
> clients will pull these down and install them automatically at the time
> specified in their GPO. The SBS on the other hand will simply download
> the patches locally, and will give you that little balloon 'Updates are
> ready to install' when you log in. Therefore, you can control when the
> patches are installed on the server . . .
>
> --
>
> Chad A. Gross - SBS MVP
> SBS ROCKS!
>
> http://msmvps.com/cgross
>


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