"Björn Axéll -Advisec AB" <netnet_46[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Hi,
> Is there a may to configure a client to report to multiple WSUS 3.0
> servers?
No. One server per client. That's the design spec.
Now, here's an unsupported/undocumented possibility, that'll probably cause
problems if you actually try it:
Use Round Robin DNS to assign a single DNS FQDN to several WSUS 3.0
*replica* servers, and then use reporting rollup to consolidate the
reporting at the master server. Theoretically, the most recent server to
receive the report will channel that up.
The one likely problem with this is that you cannot guarantee that the
detection server will be the reporting server, so that information may be
out of sync. Furthermore, every replica must be in continually identical
synchronization with the master, or the client may experience '404' errors
trying to download content from server 'b' that's not yet there, but was on
server 'a' when it executed the detection against server 'a' -- all because
the BITS call to initiate the download picked up a different IP Address
(maybe the DNS cache expired, etc.)
You might be able to resolve some of that by appropriately adjusting TTL
values on the 'A' records such that the detection/download/reporting events
are not impacted, but such that a client would not be married to a
particular server.
Another variation is using site-specific WSUS servers. This would be a
possibility for mobile systems, and possibly a higher level of viability, if
the IP Address for the WSUS server is fixed for the duration of the
notebook's LAN connection.
In any event, I would simulate and TEST TEST TEST in a controlled
environment and then TEST TEST TEST some more, before ever trying to deploy
something like this in the wild.
--
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
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