Create a replica server configured to not store the content locally - get
updates from MS and point your laptops to it using a GPO.
"Brandon" <Brandon[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Our company is implementing WSUS and has a number of remote notebook users
> who vary from sporadic VPN connections to no connection on the VPN. They
> all
> are sales users and need updates.
> Right now we have them setup with no update scheme ** BAD I know**. They
> update at their leisure from MS via Windows Update.
> I want to incorporate them into our WSUS setup, but dragging the updates
> across a VPN connection is not really feasible for many of them. We
> currently have a WSUS setup with defined groups so that users get approved
> updates and the AUTO REBOOT is supressed.
> Is there a way to setup a a specific group of users to use the existing
> WSUS
> server to get the approved list of updates and connect to Windows Update
> while having all my other groups still connect to the WSUS Server to get
> their updates?
>
> I guess I'm looking for a way to maintain the standardization that we have
> put in place with approving and reporting while allowing my remote users
> to
> go to MS for their downloads since our server is unavailable, then check
> in
> when they can.
>
>
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