Windows Update Repository

[Illuvatar]

Is it possible to setup a windows update repository, instead of having to download all the updates on each PC on my network or having to download and manually install the redist vesion of each?

 

[graviti]

WSUS 3.0 from Microsoft. Works reasonably well, just expect your bandwidth to die for a month or so. We have 150 PC's on a LAN, with 10 servers. Two WSUS servers, one a mirror of the other. About 40GB of content downloaded, but once it's all down, you're sorted. Updates happen automatically at a time interval we define, via Group Policy. Automatically download XP SP3 once, and deploy to 150 machines in a single day, minimal work involved. The initial download is so large for us because we are getting updates for Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000, Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007. And it gets every single update ever released for each package.

 

[andres101]

the alternative would be a (squid) proxy server with rules to force it to cache the windows updates for a few days/weeks.

 

[MeNeZ]

Or try Languard, I think you can still get a trial version...it works really well and you schedule download times etc.

It will store it an a folder and you can select multiple pcs and deploy it from there

You can do craploads more too

 

[gregmcc]

WSUS works great! A excellent free product although you have to run it on a Win2003 server.