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I am having serious problems with WSUS,I am having serious problems with WSUS, I set it up on a virtual machine running a fully updated fresh install of server 2008 R2, and followed the 2008 R2 guide by Michael on page 1, the only area in which I did not precisely follow the guide is where it says to choose full install including console, I was at no stage given that option. XP and Windows 7 clients in a test OU linked to the WSUS GPO are listed on the computers page in the WSUS console but are not receiving any updates and there status shows 0% not yet reported. This is my third attempt to setup WSUS, and each attempt has got to this same stage which I have been unable to pass. I have consulted with a technician working at another school, who has given up trying to install WSUS after experiencing the same problem. I have been unable to find any forums or guides to resolve this. Any help, hints or advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

with technically 3 technicians (due to the fact that 1 supports most 8 local primary's who each get half a day a week and another is also a supply teacher I am often the only available technician) and 600 computers, the volume of work is handled easily, firefighting is my primary responsibility, I usually respond to about 20 issues a day, ranging from forgotten passwords and power not turned on, to incorrect cabling, printer issues, hardware failures and various other issues, most of which take less than 5 minutes to resolve. I have time to learn and understand the workings of the network, and we cross train each other, so no-one is indispensable.

while most of what you said was helpful and/or reverent, in the school we have a large number of applications installed which are used by the subject areas, so at current we have the start menu setup with a hierarchical "subjects" tree, people go to the subjects group, then from there chose the relevant subject, so the 7 programs Maths use are in a separate group from the 4 programs Biology uses, which are separate from the 9 programs Food uses and so on. as I mentioned finding these by the Start screen would be hard (understatement) unless we can educate people to use the keyboard to search (and I foresee educating some of the teachers to do that proving problematic)

are you saying all the android phones in circulation were first activated within the last 250 days? that is what the numbers add up to, and suggests that android phones are extremely unreliable

I have installed the "enterprise evaluation" version, and think this will be a total disaster if deployed in its current form, I can find no way to be no way to go to desktop by default on the start screen you cannot grab and drag to move along, to navigate the start screen you can: move the mouse to the edge of the screen. use the mouse wheel to go left or right or use the scroll bar at the bottom logging on with one of our test staff accounts the applications cover 10 screens, and sometimes it will not let me get to desktop. when you log off or start the PC it brings up a "Lock screen" then when released it gives you too options log-on to the previous account or to another account, consequently it requires 2 clicks of the mouse before you can even start to enter your password, this is unchanged after joining the domain most of the functions I use daily ("my computer", "command prompt" notepad, paint, remote desktop, shutdown, restart) have been hidden, and the only way to find them is to start typing, I can live with this but the average student or teacher (some of whom do not understand that a PC only works after it is turned on at the wall) will be unable to adjust. the only solution I have been able to come up with to allow staff and students to find programs without starting typing would be to have folders on the desktop to categorize programs, making them possible to find. the Windows operating system was named for the feature of being able to have applications open in "windows", which you could re-size and arrange how you wanted, this has remained in the "desktop" but gone from he new style applications(I understand we are not allowed to call them metro anymore), therefore Windows 8's new experience means it is technically no longer a "windows" operating system this seems more like a devolution back to early Windows infrastructures were you had to keep entering and exiting Windows, I think it should be named for its experience on desktops, which is more like windows 3.x/DOS, I therefore I propose it be renamed Windows 7.1/MSIOS (MicroSoft Internet Opperating System, unfortunately IOS is taken). I always have frequently worked in command line so while disorientating, I would be able to live with this OS for home use, I just think is is unsuitable for the school environment without a lot of refinement

I know this is an old thread but this is non the less interesting, we have roughly 2 students for every PC, however that includes admin and teacher PCs so it is probabally closer to 3:1 student accessable PCs, however about 1/2 of the PCs are 5 years or older, so if those do not count we are down to about 6:1

3 technicians for about 1100 users and 600 computers, however one of the technicians spends more than half of his time offsite at other schools we support, and another is used as a supply teacher (again only available about half the time), there often is only one technician available on site. many enterprise environments would consider 1 tech to 50 users to be insufficient.