Archive for November 4th, 2011
WSUS on non-domain systems
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on November 4, 2011
One issue with my shiny new WSUS toy that I did find was that, in theory, only Windows editions with access to Group Policy (namely, those editions labelled Professional and higher) can have the Windows Update server URL set. Of course, in practical use, people have found a way. Whether it’s manually creating registry keys […]
New toy: WSUS
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on November 4, 2011
So I got WinSrv2008R2 free, courtesy of Dreamspark, and I’ve been messing around with it. I was thinking of creating a few Win7 VMs to mess around with Domains, Group Policy and the like, and one of the things that I found was some functionality called Windows Server Update Services. Turns out WSUS is a […]