What WSUS Client Application? "Will" <westes-usc[ at ]noemail.nospam> 6/20/2007 3:23:29 AM We installed WSUS 3.0 (our first WSUS install) and got the administrator tool working. We took a Windows XP test client, added it to a test OU, and attached the appropriate Windows Update GPO to that test OU. After group policy update on the test client, the appropriate WindowsUpdate key is created in registry with correct settings. But the client is not grabbing any of the Update files on the WSUS server. What confuses me the most about WSUS is where is the WSUS update client, and is this some kind of command line tool? How can I get it installed on a Windows 2000 and Windows XP client? Is there any URL I can use from a browser on a targeted client that will allow me to have a similar Windows Update experience from the client against our WSUS server as what the user would experience going directly to the Windows Update web site? Having that kind of graphical web-based interaction between the client and the WSUS server would be highly desirable. -- Will

Re: What WSUS Client Application? "Winfried Sonntag [MVP]" <Winfried.Sonntag[ at ]gmx.de> 6/20/2007 1:31:23 PM Will schrieb: [Quoted Text] > We installed WSUS 3.0 (our first WSUS install) and got the administrator > tool working. We took a Windows XP test client, added it to a test OU, and > attached the appropriate Windows Update GPO to that test OU. After group > policy update on the test client, the appropriate WindowsUpdate key is > created in registry with correct settings. But the client is not grabbing > any of the Update files on the WSUS server. Have a look in WindowsUpdate.log in Directory %windir%. Do you have updates approved for installation? Are the updates downloaded to the WSUS? > What confuses me the most about WSUS is where is the WSUS update client, and > is this some kind of command line tool? How can I get it installed on a > Windows 2000 and Windows XP client? W2K must have install SP4 + XP must have installed SP1 minimum. The WU-Client comes with the OS. You can force connecting from the client to WSUS: wuauclt /detectnow and/or wuauclt /reportnow. > Is there any URL I can use from a browser on a targeted client that will > allow me to have a similar Windows Update experience from the client against > our WSUS server as what the user would experience going directly to the > Windows Update web site? You can test from a client: http://WSUS-SERVER/selfupdate/wuident.cab and/or http://WSUS-SERVER:8530/selfupdate/wuident.cab Comes the Download dialog? Winfried -- http://www.microsoft.com/germany/windowsserver2003/technologien/updateservices/default.mspx http://www.wsuswiki.com/Home