SUS Clients and GPO problem

hi,
I have been struggling with SUS with AD for a week now.
I have Installed SUS Server which is working just fine. Downloaded 347
updates (service packs and patches). I followed the sus deployment
guide for configuring the GPO for the OU of interest.

Configure Automatic Updates(Enabled)

Specify intranet Microsoft update service location(Enabled)
SUS Server http://10.X.X.X
SUS Statistics Server http://10.X.X.X

Reschedule Automatic Updates scheduled installations(Enabled)

No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations(Enabled)

To the best of my understanding that should suffice and after a user of
that particular OU logs on to a workstation I should see the updated
registry with the following keys

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\win dows\WindowsUpdate]
"UseWUServer"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\win dows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"WUServer"="http://10.X.X.X"
"WUStatusServer"="http://10.X.X.X"

buts thats not happening the registry is not being updated.. what am I
missing??

I tried windows update by manually updating the registry and its works
like a charm. So Registry entries are correct and the clients are
working fine. Whats the point of AD if I have to manually update the
registry of 900+ PCs by hand.
Client I tried so far are Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional,
Windows 2003 Server Standard. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
Shahid Mamji

wrote:
> hi,
> I have been struggling with SUS with AD for a week now.
> I have Installed SUS Server which is working just fine. Downloaded
347
> updates (service packs and patches). I followed the sus deployment
> guide for configuring the GPO for the OU of interest.
>
> Configure Automatic Updates(Enabled)
>
> Specify intranet Microsoft update service location(Enabled)
> SUS Server http://10.X.X.X
> SUS Statistics Server http://10.X.X.X
>
> Reschedule Automatic Updates scheduled installations(Enabled)
>
> No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates
installations(Enabled)
>
> To the best of my understanding that should suffice and after a user
of
> that particular OU logs on to a workstation I should see the updated
> registry with the following keys


Have you applied this GPO to the OU that the user is in or to an OU
that contains the workstations? It should be applied to the latter and
will apply at startup (not logon).

bingo!!!