Re: SUS on a standalone network

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From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:00:35 +0100

David Kubica wrote:

> I have a standalone network that I need to load SUS on.
> How do I copy the updates from a server connected to the
> internet, and the burn them to CD, to load and update the
> SUS server on the standalone network???

Hi

Note that the server connected to the internet also needs to be a SUS server.

You can then copy (using e.g. removable media) the updates from this
SUS server to any other offline SUS server(s).

That would be the "Manually-Configured Content Distribution Point" part of the
chapter "Synchronizing Content With Another Server Running Software Update
Services or Manually-Configured Content Distribution Point" in
SUS_Deployguide_sp1.doc if I am not mistaken.

Note that it is a error in the documentation:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=074901c2e895%2400f8c630%24a101280a%40phx.gbl&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D074901c2e895%252400f8c630%2524a101280a%2540phx.gbl

Here is another way it looks like:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=eZt8krMHDHA.1828%40TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl
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Fyi, there is a separate newsgroup for SUS:

microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

URL to the group softwareupdatesvcs for those who uses the Web
interface to access the newsgroups:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

A Web site about SUS with a FAQ and a SUS forum:
http://www.susserver.com/

More SUS Web sites:
http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/sus/faq.html
http://www.faqshop.com/sus/default.htm 

--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx

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