"Alzana" <Alzana[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] >I have a question about wsus, which i inherited in this network at work.
> Is that true that after a certain amount of time the updates expired?
No!
Updates "expire" because they are replaced with a new *revision* of the same
update. (A revision contains new metadata but the *same* installable bits.)
"Expire" is a status that can only be set as a result of synchronizing with
Microsoft and obtaining a revision to an existing update.
> All PC on the net are updated with what i approve but if i join a new XP
> workstation in the network, how can i make it to download all updates
> which i
> already approved and that are already installed on all the other clients??
[a] Put it in a group that already has those updates approved.
[b] Create a special "UnderConstruction" OU/GPO specifically for managing
new systems. You might even consider modifying Active Directory to make the
"UnderConstruction" OU the default OU for all new domain machines.
> It seems i am not able to have it download all the past approved updates
It's probably being joined, by default, to the Computers *container*, which
cannot have OU-level group policies applied, and if there is no WSUS GPO
applied at the domain level (and there shouldn't be), those machines are
getting no WSUS policy settings.
--
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://www.microsoft.com/wsus
And, almost everything else is at
http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
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> thanks
> Alzana
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