Re: WSUS Deployment progress monitor

"fabie" <> wrote in message
news:...

24 hours ago I responded to your MONDAY post in the Win2008\WSUS forum
regarding this issue.

I see that this post does not contain the security sensitive information
that you've removed from the other post in the past 12 hours.

However, posting in a new forums isn't going to change my original answer;
nor is properly masking the security sensitive information you previously
provided.

You need TWO WSUS Servers to operate in the scenario that you are
describing.
And, frankly, you need to find a way to get that "six week" window for
server updating significantly reduced.


Here is the (edited/redacted) remainder of the constructive portion of my
reply from the forums post made 24 hours ago. It still applies -- although
here you might actually get some additional/alternative viewpoints. :-)

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Add a second REPLICA server with MANUAL Synchronization, and synchronize it
MANUALLY as needed.

Assign your SERVERS to this "manual" server for their updates.

Then leave your workstations (and WSUS Servers) assigned to the PRIMARY
server, and let it function with normal daily synchronizations like the
Windows environment is intended to be done. And poof -- you've solved the
"workstations can't get updates" scenario.
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The original thread is viewable at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...1-e24a6e2870bb


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