Re: SUS and laptops working Offline

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:59:38 +0200

Martski wrote:

> I managed to find one post with regards to the above, but
> I am looking for a more diffinative/concrete answer.
>
> Will updates get pushed to laptops not attached to a LAN,
> especially if the laptop is configured to pull patches
> from MS rather than a local server?
>
> If so, is there a facility to change this?
Hi

You need to configure Automatic Updates to point to your SUS
server (you can do that with some registry changes), and the
computer needs to be able to connect to the SUS server when
the scheduler in Automatic Updates wants to check for updates.

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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