IMPLEMENTING AND MANAGING SOFTWARE UPDATE SERVICES

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IMPLEMENTING AND MANAGING SOFTWARE UPDATE SERVICES

• Chapter 7

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WHAT IS INCLUDED IN AN UPDATE?

• Critical updates
• Recommended downloads
• Windows tools
• Internet and multimedia updates
• Additional Windows downloads
• Multilanguage features
• Documentation

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OVERVIEW OF SOFTWARE UPDATE SERVICES

• Content synchronization service
• Server-side service for downloading updates
  automatically or manually
• Internal Windows Update server
• Synchronization service and admin tools for
  managing updates
• Automatic Updates on computers
• Retrieves updates from SUS service instead of
  Microsofts Web site

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WINDOWS UPDATE
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AUTOMATIC UPDATES
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OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR AUTOMATIC
UPDATES

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (SP3)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (SP3)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server (SP3)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family of operating
  systems

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ENHANCED FEATURES OF AUTOMATIC UPDATES

• Approved content for download from a SUS server
• Scheduled content download and installation
• Ability to configure Automatic Updates options by
  using Group Policy Object Editor
• Computer configuration/Admin Templates/Windows
  components/Windows update container
• Ability to configure Automatic Updates options by
  editing the registry
• Eliminates requirements for administrator logon

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INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING SUS
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HOW SUS WORKS
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MANAGING SUS (SERVER MANAGEMENT)

• Initial server configuration
• Synchronization (automatic or manual)
• Selection and approval of synchronized content
• Backing up and restoring the SUS server
• Monitoring server status and logs

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SUS CLIENT CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

• Automatic Update Wizard
• System Tools in Control Panel
• Group Policy
• Registry entries

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CLIENT CONFIGURATION USING SYSTEM TOOLS
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MANAGING SUS CLIENTS USING GROUP POLICY OBJECT
EDITOR
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MONITORING SUS

• Monitoring sever pages
• Synchronization log
• Approval logs
• Server event log messages
• Client event log messages

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SUMMARY

• What is SUS?
• Windows Update and Automatic Updates
• Installing and configuring SUS
• How SUS works
• Managing SUS
• Monitoring SUS

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Lab 7

• Implementing and Managing Software Update
  Services
• 115 minutes