wus servers our lea have seen the light

[russdev]

just had conversation with our lea guy they have decided to help us set up wus server on our admin network...

you may think that is easy but way the n/w has been designed means it not an easy task...

idea is we are going to have our own wus server and once lea sort out doing upstream server at there end will move over...

Russ

[Dos_Box]

We are quite free in Lancashire to install WSUS at any level. And dammed nice it is too.

[russdev]

so are we but problem is way network is setup and can be bit of nightmare getting stuff working...

Russ

[barryfl]

Eek, I had the exact same convo with a guy @ our LEA in the week and his words were "No we don't support you setting that up so if you break it, You fix it haha" I was not a happy bunny. Much like you the Russ the way our Admin network is setup its a pain in the a$$ to get working.

Baz

[russdev]

well i am luckly got the head admin support on speed dail and we have understanding we get what we wont as long as he can use us a test site for various things software.

Russ

[tarquel]

sounds good russ - til they start charging you for their time [winks @ mark]. Our lea only covers certain provisions and we have to pay for the rest - for a new topic maybe?

I'm having difficulty getting critical updates at the moment - psf ending but the log entry on the firewall is so long it gets cut off, so it doesnt tell me what type/MIME or whatever its called [i.e. application/x-pdf ,etc] it is for me to allow the type in the firewall content settings

Anyone know what it is?

Manually doing windows update shows the log and i guess its why WSUS isnt working properly at the moment

Cheers
N.

[spc-rocket]

Russell,

We used to have SUS and have recently migrated to WUS on the admin network and its working fine! - didn't need to consult LEA, they are happy with it.

I like the reporting function on WUS and a bit more flexibility than SUS.

Ashok.

[russdev]

well biggist problem lea setup our admin network few features to it...

Russ

[russdev]

how much harddrive space does wus take up with with full download of updates on it...

what going to do is put it on cc server as want to set laptops up to get updates from it and cant have public ip assigned to admin network at moment...

Russ

[spc-rocket]

Russ,

You're with EMBC? - get a public IP address as usual and then in ISA port forward it to the admin network? is your ISA sitting between the two networks only or is it sitting between the EMBC router and the rest of your nrtworks?

Ashok.

[spc-rocket]

Doh! I should have read the few messages than the last one. Russ if you admin network on a seperate vlan?.

Our admin network was setup by LEA as well and we didn't have any problems using the SUS server at the time and we were using EMBC as the broadband provider.

We setup a PC with Server 2000 or 2003 server and just installed the SUS/WSUS on and followed the adm template guide basically tells you how to use the sus/wsus adn template on AD. We editied a main GPO and imported the adm template which basically allows you to set the options like the location of sus server, when to do the updates, and also if PCs reboots automatically or not after the update has been deployed/installed.

For more info check out www.susserver.com or www.wsus.info

Hope this helps.

Ashok.

[russdev]

yer you got it admin network on seperate lan and never shell two shall meet have got isa box there but got to be careful editting that as lea could get arsey...

Russ