Corporate Configuration

Since we had Windows 2000 several years ago, we had reg-hacked a policy
setting for WSUS for our clients, which loaded the information under
LM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpda te...

Since we are on Windows XP SP2 going to SP3 we now have 4 separate settings
for WSUS which all workstations are in the same OU, so we only have one
policy applied. We have two separate locations with a test and prod WSUS
settings, which makes 4 different settings depending on location, target
group, servername, etc. Is there another place this can be set without
pushing a registry key down under policy?

Question, when policies don't work and we clean everything up, one extra
step was to remove the LM\software\policies and CU\Software\Policies keys and
subkeys and issuing a GPUPDATE /FORCE. When we do this, the WSUS key also
get wacked and we would manually have to remember which location and
test/Prod the client was at. 1) Is there a setting outside the policy key
that we can set up when to download, update, group

WSUS newsgroup:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...pdate_services

WSUS forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...erwsus/threads

SkyEyes wrote:
> Since we had Windows 2000 several years ago, we had reg-hacked a policy
> setting for WSUS for our clients, which loaded the information under
> LM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpda te...
>
> Since we are on Windows XP SP2 going to SP3 we now have 4 separate
> settings
> for WSUS which all workstations are in the same OU, so we only have one
> policy applied. We have two separate locations with a test and prod WSUS
> settings, which makes 4 different settings depending on location, target
> group, servername, etc. Is there another place this can be set without
> pushing a registry key down under policy?
>
> Question, when policies don't work and we clean everything up, one extra
> step was to remove the LM\software\policies and CU\Software\Policies keys
> and subkeys and issuing a GPUPDATE /FORCE. When we do this, the WSUS key
> also get wacked and we would manually have to remember which location and
> test/Prod the client was at. 1) Is there a setting outside the policy key
> that we can set up when to download, update, group