Installing Software Update Services
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
Software Update Services (SUS) helps you collect, approve, and distribute critical operating system updates to resolve security vulnerabilities and stability issues. In this chapter, SUS is used to distribute such updates to the Windows XP-based clients in the domain. For more information about deploying SUS, see the Software Update Services Deployment White Paper link on the Web Resources page at https://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/webresources.
Perform the following procedure to install SUS version 1.0 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) on DC01.
Note
- To use SUS on a DC, you must install SUS version 1.0 with SP1 or later.
To install SUS 1.0 SP1
To download the SUS 1.0 SP1 server component, click the Software Update Services Download Site link on the Web Resources page at https://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/webresources, and follow the instructions.
When prompted to specify whether to open or save the file, click Open.
SUS will be downloaded and installed into a folder named \SUS on the largest drive partition available on DC01.
Choose the Typical setup.
After the wizard installs SUS, it provides you with a URL for administering SUS on DC01 (at https://DC01/SUSAdmin) and opens that Web page in Internet Explorer.
In the left pane of the SUS Administration Page, click Set Options.
Select the Synchronize directly from the Microsoft Windows Update servers option.
Select Automatically approve new versions of previously approved updates.
Accept the default for saving updates to a local folder, and click Clear All to clear all languages. Then select only those languages that you need in your environment. For the chapter example, check English. When you finish selecting languages, click Apply.
To download updates from the Microsoft Windows Update Server, in the left pane, click Synchronize server and then click Synchronize Now.
After downloading the updates, sort them by Platform. Select all Windows XP updates, and click Approve.
Click Synchronize server again, and click Synchronization Schedule. Set SUS to synchronize updates with the Microsoft Windows Update servers at 23:00 on Sunday.
Close the SUS Administration Page window.
You will use SUS later to download critical updates to the client computers.
Caution
- This configuration is appropriate when you are administering SUS locally; if you need to administer SUS remotely, you should enable secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure/Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS/SSL).