I don't know then. I just followed the instructions on installing SUS on a server which included having IIS installed. I then set the 4 group policies to do with SUS. One told the computers that were members of that OU that they should use automatic updates to install patches and they should install those updates at 3:00 am. The updates get pushed down when they are available on the server but the computer does not actually install them until 3:00 am and then it reboots if necessary. If a Administrator is logged in when the files are available to install, Windows offers to install right away and not wait till 3:00 am. Another policy tells the computers the location of that SUS server(http://servername) . Another tells the computer to wait 5 minutes after startup to install the updates in case it missed the install time (maybe was not turned on at 3:00 am). The last tells our computers to wait till the user restarts the computer to apply the updates. Otherwise the user will be interrupted by a computer restart when they don't expect it. The only other thing I had to do was install the new Auto Update client on all computers that didn't have Windows 2000 SP3 installed. I expect this is not an issue and you probably have XP installed that already has the updated client. Not much else to it so I don't know what could be the problem. When you go to the computers that are supposed to be downloading the updates, if you go into the Control Panel, Are the options in Automatic Updates applet grayed out? If not, the GP is not being applied to that computer. Doug ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave stevens Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:43 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: WSUS Headache We fully implementing AD, so I don't think the registry modification is necessary. Not quite sure where to start looking. It would have been nice to have a GUI that shows how you can test push out updates Dave "Ibrahim, Mustafa" <Mustafa.Ibrahim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: You can also just push out the client Policy configurations as registry keys. Useful if you are not yet using AD. ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jensen, Douglas Sent: 03 October 2005 15:40 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: WSUS Headache Have you set up a Group Policy so your computers know they should update from your WSUS server? I am still using SUS but I think you still need the policy. It is located in: Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components Windows Update Douglas Jensen Douglas.Jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Voice (952) 402-9821 Fax (952) 402-9815 Network Administrator Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency, Inc. 712 Canterbury Road Shakopee, MN 55379 www.capagency.org ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave stevens Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:52 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] WSUS Headache Hi Guys, Here is the deal. I have approved updates to be installed in WSUS since 23/09/05, the deadline has passed and none of the updates have been applied. Am I doing something wrong? The clients are reporting ok, so I dont think it is a comms issues. Please help, cos not quite sure what the problem is. Thanks Dave ________________________________ Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate <http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/> to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. ________________________________ Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate <http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/> to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.