Replica mode - Update Contents eugenevr <evrng[ at ]yahoo.com> 5/31/2007 7:02:24 AM Hi I've had a "test" WSUS server on the LAN, with all updates already downloaded, approved, computer groups intact etc. Now wanted to install a clean WSUS on a production server. What I did was to set up the "new" server in replica mode, and it worked fine, it downloaded all the content from the test server fine. Question: If I now change the replica mode so that updates are downloaded from MU, *at that stage, will the content that is downloaded be sufficient, and it will only download "new" updates from there on?* I've tried this and it seems to be downloading the stuff all over again. Would appreciate if anyone has done the same and can share, or if you think I have made a mistake in my logic here? Thanks in advance Eugene

Re: Replica mode - Update Contents "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 5/31/2007 8:24:38 PM "eugenevr" <evrng[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1180594944.861435.268320[ at ]q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > What I did was to set up the "new" server in replica mode, and it > worked fine, it downloaded all the content from the test server fine. > > Question: If I now change the replica mode so that updates are > downloaded from MU, *at that stage, will the content that is > downloaded be sufficient, and it will only download "new" updates from > there on?* Yes. > I've tried this and it seems to be downloading the stuff all over > again. You'll want to confirm that the configuration of your new replica server was *identical* to the test server you originally sychronized from. If there is additional products, classifications, languages, or express installation files enabled on the "replica" server that are not configured on the upstream server, they will be addressed when you un-replica the server. This also presumes that the replica server did, in fact, download *all* of the available content from the (upstream) test server. Can you provide some specific examples of updates that were downloaded from the (upstream) test server, and are now being downloaded from microsoft.com again? -- 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 .....