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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:16 PM
     
     
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    Is AD required to use WSUS?  This is very important to me, as I want to use a WSUS server, but the majority of the computers being updated are not in any Domain. 

    Also, can you push customer fixes out to computers, or only MS updates with WSUS?  We have a lot of proprietary software that we need to update from time to time, and using WSUS to update this would be optimal, but not required.

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    Scotty
     

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  • Monday, September 15, 2008 10:33 AM
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    Hi Scotty,

    AD is not required for WSUS installation and operation, for the clients is not in the domain, you can modify the registry to specify the WSUS server.

    For deploying custom update, I'd like to suggest you use System Center Configurations Manager 2007(SCCM) with System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP), see the article below:

    How to setup SCUP and ConfigMgr 2007 to deploy custom updates

    http://blog.nickbeaugeard.net/index.php/archives/87

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    Eric Zhang




     
  • Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:27 AM
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    Hi,

    As this thread has been quiet for a while, we assume that the issue has been resolved. At this time, we will mark it as ‘Answered’ as the previous steps should be helpful for many similar scenarios.

    If the issue still persists and you want to return to this question, please reply this post directly so we will be notified to follow it up. You can also choose to unmark the answer as you wish.

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  • Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:17 PM
     
     
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    I have a similar issue, but the majority of my computers are in AD, there are a few that are not part of the domain that I would like to get updates from my WSUS server. Is there an easy way to point these machines to the WSUS server?

    Thanks,