setting WU clients to a MONTHLY (not weekly) schedule

[Guest yzzazz76@gmail.com]

Hello all and thanks for taking a moment to review my post.

 

My organization has several hundred Windows 2000 and 2003 servers that

we currently patch manually because of application considerations.

Each application has a dedicated maintenance window where the systems

engineer assigned to it logs on and visits Microsoft's update site.

 

I hope to install a Windows Update Server to manage these patches. All

of the features we need for this solution seem to be present with a

single (but very important) exception.

 

I need to have the clients downloading and installing their patches on

a once-a-month basis and it appears the only option is to have them

look for new updates every day or on a given day of the week. I am

concerned that if I allow the servers to download and install updates

every Thursday for instance, it will lead to as many as 4 reboots a

month.

 

Does anyone have recommendations or a method to demand clients look

for these updates on my WSUS server once a month? It sounds like a lot

of overhead to manually turn on and off servers in the WSUS console...

 

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

J

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WSUS Scheduling

 

While it is true that you can not schedule the clients to check monthly with

the WSUS server, that does not matter in most environments. I generally

configure clients to check daily. No updates are delivered unless you approve

them on the WSUS server. If you approve them monthly they only update

monthly. The problem with scheduling the clients for once a mont updates (if

you could) is that if you had not tested and approved the updates yet, the

clients would have to wait another month to get the updates. In today's

security environment that is not acceptable.

 

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"yzzazz76@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hello all and thanks for taking a moment to review my post.

>

> My organization has several hundred Windows 2000 and 2003 servers that

> we currently patch manually because of application considerations.

> Each application has a dedicated maintenance window where the systems

> engineer assigned to it logs on and visits Microsoft's update site.

>

> I hope to install a Windows Update Server to manage these patches. All

> of the features we need for this solution seem to be present with a

> single (but very important) exception.

>

> I need to have the clients downloading and installing their patches on

> a once-a-month basis and it appears the only option is to have them

> look for new updates every day or on a given day of the week. I am

> concerned that if I allow the servers to download and install updates

> every Thursday for instance, it will lead to as many as 4 reboots a

> month.

>

> Does anyone have recommendations or a method to demand clients look

> for these updates on my WSUS server once a month? It sounds like a lot

> of overhead to manually turn on and off servers in the WSUS console...

>

>

> Thanks in advance for any ideas!

> J

>

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