wlandymore Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 does anyone know of good software that could be used for deploying microsoft updates to an external server?I wan't something with the exact functionality of the SUS, but the patches and updates need to be deployed to an external address. How can I do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Sorry wlandymore, but what exactly do you mean by "deploying to an external server"?Do you simply wish to have the updates files in a location which is accessible to people on your network? Or do you actually want to deploy the patch so it applies?Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlandymore Posted June 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 well, basically have a server in a central location that will have patches/hotfixes that have been tested internally and after we verify that they're good to go, you could have an external client download them.It would be better if it could be pushed so that it would just pop up on the client that the patch needed to be downloaded, but beggers can't be choosers.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 OK, I am not aware of any commercial non M$ software to do this, but I have just found a possible answer to your first question (about changing the M$ Update location), which I think will also answer this question.Please see my post herehttp://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.ph...indpost&p=98499Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlandymore Posted June 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 I'll check it out.But the first one is about the SUS from M$ and I don't believe that you can use that to deploy updates outside of a domain, only internally. I need to evaluate the updates internally and then have a way to get them to external clients...Essentially this is what I want but I'm going to have about 4 or 5 computers that will be outside the domain (in a different country actually) and I'd like to have a way to push the patches and updates to their computers after I've tested them.The only way that I can think of is to have a link that they can put in their start menu that goes to an internet site and then they can just click on the download for the patch that's been tested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Well, a very basic way of doing this is creating an FTP site. You can test and upload the patches to the server, and then create a link on the clients desktop that will download the patch and run it when it is finished downloading.I don't know of any programs already written to do this, but with a little knowledge and a lot of luck, it shouldn't be too hard.. right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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