WSUS Listing of Missing Computers Johnson County Public Library, IT Staff 6/25/2007 5:49:00 PM We use WSUS to push updates to both staff and public computers. I'd like to know how or if there's a way to have computers listed in the "Review Missing Computers" Category removed from that listing. I have several public pcs that we need out of that listing. We do use a PC Sanitizer on Public PCs to prevent unwanted downloads, so I'm wondering if that's causing them to be listed there in the first place.

Re: WSUS Listing of Missing Computers "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/26/2007 2:33:27 AM "Johnson County Public Library, IT Staff" <Johnson County Public Library, IT Staff[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:110EA111-C178-4C3B-923A-D0BB622631B1[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > We use WSUS to push updates to both staff and public computers. Can you define "public computers"? Technically, providing updates to computers not licensed to the WSUS Server licensee is a violation of the WSUS EULA. > I'd like to > know how or if there's a way to have computers listed in the "Review > Missing > Computers" Category removed from that listing. This "Review Missing Computers" category sounds like a locally created thing. There is no such entity in any WSUS server I've ever seen, WSUS v2 or WSUS v3. (I'm looking at my WSUS v3 server right now.) And, the only way there would be to get such a group populated, is by manually assigning non-reporting computers to that group on a server configured to use server-side targeting. The way to remove computers from that group would be: Right Click on the Computer and select Delete from the context menu. > I have several public pcs > that we need out of that listing. We do use a PC Sanitizer on Public PCs > to > prevent unwanted downloads, so I'm wondering if that's causing them to be > listed there in the first place. Not likely. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....

Re: WSUS Listing of Missing Computers JCPL IT Dept Staff 6/26/2007 6:48:01 PM I will definitely check into the licensing on this as you've said. I did have one last question, If I removed the non reporting computers from the listing, does that prevent them from being recognized and receiving WSUS updates...again assuming that the licensing is correct...? Thank for your help Mr. Garvin, Mike JCPL Desktop Administrator "Lawrence Garvin (MVP)" wrote: [Quoted Text] > "Johnson County Public Library, IT Staff" <Johnson County Public Library, IT > Staff[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:110EA111-C178-4C3B-923A-D0BB622631B1[ at ]microsoft.com... > > We use WSUS to push updates to both staff and public computers. > > Can you define "public computers"? Technically, providing updates to > computers not licensed to the WSUS Server licensee is a violation of the > WSUS EULA. > > > I'd like to > > know how or if there's a way to have computers listed in the "Review > > Missing > > Computers" Category removed from that listing. > > This "Review Missing Computers" category sounds like a locally created > thing. There is no such entity in any WSUS server I've ever seen, WSUS v2 or > WSUS v3. (I'm looking at my WSUS v3 server right now.) > > And, the only way there would be to get such a group populated, is by > manually assigning non-reporting computers to that group on a server > configured to use server-side targeting. > > The way to remove computers from that group would be: Right Click on the > Computer and select Delete from the context menu. > > > I have several public pcs > > that we need out of that listing. We do use a PC Sanitizer on Public PCs > > to > > prevent unwanted downloads, so I'm wondering if that's causing them to be > > listed there in the first place. > > Not likely. > > -- > Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP > Independent WSUS Evangelist > MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E > > Everything you need for WSUS is at > http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx > > And, almost everything else is at > http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com > ..... > > > >

Re: WSUS Listing of Missing Computers Johnson County Public Library-Indiana 6/26/2007 6:57:01 PM Hello Mr. Garvin, Thank you for your assistance, I did have one last follow up for you on this issue. If we manually remove the non-reporting computers that are causing us the difficulty, then will the WSUS Server recognize them or find them later on in order to send them updates? and..if it does find them, will it recategorize them as non reporting? The part that seems odd to me is that in the non reporting computers, it shows that the computers are reporting in almost daily, so I'm unsure about the accuracy of that grouping. It's hard to tell though if it was manually grouped that way originally, if this was done properly or correctly. Thank you again for all your help. JCPL IT Staff -- IT Staff Johnson County Public Library Indiana USA "Lawrence Garvin (MVP)" wrote: [Quoted Text] > "Johnson County Public Library, IT Staff" <Johnson County Public Library, IT > Staff[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:110EA111-C178-4C3B-923A-D0BB622631B1[ at ]microsoft.com... > > We use WSUS to push updates to both staff and public computers. > > Can you define "public computers"? Technically, providing updates to > computers not licensed to the WSUS Server licensee is a violation of the > WSUS EULA. > > > I'd like to > > know how or if there's a way to have computers listed in the "Review > > Missing > > Computers" Category removed from that listing. > > This "Review Missing Computers" category sounds like a locally created > thing. There is no such entity in any WSUS server I've ever seen, WSUS v2 or > WSUS v3. (I'm looking at my WSUS v3 server right now.) > > And, the only way there would be to get such a group populated, is by > manually assigning non-reporting computers to that group on a server > configured to use server-side targeting. > > The way to remove computers from that group would be: Right Click on the > Computer and select Delete from the context menu. > > > I have several public pcs > > that we need out of that listing. We do use a PC Sanitizer on Public PCs > > to > > prevent unwanted downloads, so I'm wondering if that's causing them to be > > listed there in the first place. > > Not likely. > > -- > Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP > Independent WSUS Evangelist > MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E > > Everything you need for WSUS is at > http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx > > And, almost everything else is at > http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com > ..... > > > >

Re: WSUS Listing of Missing Computers "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/27/2007 12:52:29 AM "JCPL IT Dept Staff" <JCPL IT Dept Staff[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:16917CCE-B560-4140-9855-E0215378152C[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I will definitely check into the licensing on this as you've said. I did > have one last question, > If I removed the non reporting computers from the listing, does that > prevent > them from being recognized and receiving WSUS updates...again assuming > that > the licensing is correct...? No. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....

Re: WSUS Listing of Missing Computers "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/27/2007 12:53:44 AM "JCPL IT Dept Staff" <JCPL IT Dept Staff[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:16917CCE-B560-4140-9855-E0215378152C[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I will definitely check into the licensing on this as you've said. I did > have one last question, It also just occurred to me that because you are a county public library, that by "Public Computers", you may have meant "Computers that are available for public use inside the library". If that is the case, then there is *no* licensing issue here. The library owns those computers. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....

Re: WSUS Listing of Missing Computers "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/27/2007 12:55:56 AM "Johnson County Public Library-Indiana" <JohnsonCountyPublicLibraryIndiana[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0CFC0D8E-C21E-411A-BCB4-3F902A24C31A[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > The part that seems odd to me is that in the non reporting computers, it > shows that the computers are reporting in almost daily, so I'm unsure > about > the accuracy of that grouping. If they're reporting daily, then the groupname is probably not an accurate indicator of their status as "missing". Maybe "missing" means something else<???> > It's hard to tell though if it was manually grouped that way originally, > if > this was done properly or correctly. It's hard to imagine somebody creating a target group called "Review Missing Computers", and then assigning membership to that target group via Group Policy, thus my *assumption* that the assignments were done manually, at the server, as a response to them not reporting properly. Purely speculation on my part, however. You're the admin now. I'd say configure it whatever way works for *you*. :-) -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....