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i got it working!!! i ended up finding an email address for someone on the adobe updater team in one of the adobe forums and emailed them directly. here's what i got from them, and it worked for me (this is apparently specific to iis 7.5): 1. make sure the services for IIS ASP and ISAPI Extensions are installed. 2. go into 'handler mappings' and add a script map with the following: - in the Request path, type: *.xml - in the Executable, type: C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\asp.dll - give it a name (i called mine xml) - for Request Restrictions, i locked mine down to a file, with just the verb GET, and 'script' access. once you have that in place, the updater should work! good luck : ) wally

how did your testing go? i still can't get mine to work. no proxy server in play here. i am able to successfully load the file that the client updater is trying to access within a browser (i checked the iis logs to see which file it is requesting and was able to use that path to load the file in the browser). wally

glad it helped. a quick question for you... what webserver are you using to provide updates? i am using iis 7.5; i see the request from the client come through in the logs, but the client just throws an error "the update server is not responding..." any ideas? thanks! wally

John - it is a free tool, here's where you can read about it: Adobe Update server « Adobe Installation and Licensing wally

hello norphy - i just came across your post while researching why my update server isn't working (the clients won't update against it), but wanted to chip in on your 2nd question above, because i've gotten it figured out. here's what i did (i guess i won't know for sure if it in fact will work on windows server 2008 r2 because of UAC stuff, but it sure runs when i run while logged in as myself): 1. create a batch file, call it whatever you want; i called mine 'getadobeupdates.bat'. 2. make the contents of the file be the following (path(s) edited to suit your specific enviroment, this is just what mine says): echo.2|c:\AdobeUpdateServerSetupToolCS5.exe --root="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\adobeupdates" [the "echo.2" automatically enters "2" and an "enter" when the menu comes up after running the "AdobeUpdateServerSetupToolCS5.exe" program] 3. run the batch file manually to see if it completes successfully. 4. once you have it working while running it manually, create a scheduled task that runs this batch file automatically at your specified time. hope this helps! wally