Force WSUS server name to .. Home Edition .. users

[Jake]

Hi,

We have a few Windows Vista/XP Home edition computers which we would
like to have forced windows updates through our WSUS server. Which
options do we have?

I hoped to set a local gpo, but that cannot be done in Home editions afaik.

Can we set the WSUS server name and settings manually in registry on
Home Edition computers?

regards

jake

[Lawrence Garvin [MVP]]

"Jake" <jak...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Can we set the WSUS server name and settings manually in registry on Home
> Edition computers?

Yes.

See the section Configure Clients in a Non-Active Directory Environment in
the WSUS Deployment Guide
[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939844(WS.10).aspx]

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[Jake]

Lawrence Garvin [MVP] skrev:

> "Jake" <jak...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:upz$b%23iVKH...@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
>> Can we set the WSUS server name and settings manually in registry on
>> Home Edition computers?
>
> Yes.
>
> See the section Configure Clients in a Non-Active Directory Environment
> in the WSUS Deployment Guide
> [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939844(WS.10).aspx]
>
>

Great,

Vista Home Edition does not have this registry hive. Can I just create
these entries (or even better, copy the hive from an XP Pro computer),
save it as a .reg file, run it on Vista Home as admin and have
everything up and running as of WSUS?

You are sure that this works both with Vista and XP HOME editions? And
also for Win7 Home...?

regards geir

[Harry Johnston [MVP]]

Jake wrote:

>> See the section Configure Clients in a Non-Active Directory
>> Environment in the WSUS Deployment Guide
>> [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939844(WS.10).aspx]

> Vista Home Edition does not have this registry hive.

It certainly has the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive. Do you mean registry key?

> Can I just create
> these entries (or even better, copy the hive from an XP Pro computer),
> save it as a .reg file, run it on Vista Home as admin and have
> everything up and running as of WSUS?

Yes. Note that this key doesn't exist on any edition of XP or Vista out of the
box, although under professional edition you have the option of creating it via
the group policy tools rather than manually.

> You are sure that this works both with Vista and XP HOME editions? And
> also for Win7 Home...?

Yes, definitely.

Harry.

[Lawrence Garvin [MVP]]

"Jake" <jak...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Lawrence Garvin [MVP] skrev:
>> "Jake" <jak...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:upz$b%23iVKH...@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>>> Can we set the WSUS server name and settings manually in registry on
>>> Home Edition computers?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> See the section Configure Clients in a Non-Active Directory Environment
>> in the WSUS Deployment Guide
>> [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939844(WS.10).aspx]
>>
>>
>
> Great,
>
> Vista Home Edition does not have this registry hive. Can I just create
> these entries (or even better, copy the hive from an XP Pro computer),
> save it as a .reg file, run it on Vista Home as admin and have everything
> up and running as of WSUS?

Yes. (And I believe this methodology is discussed in that section of the
Deployment Guide.)

> You are sure that this works both with Vista and XP HOME editions? And
> also for Win7 Home...?

It works for *ANY* version of Microsoft Windows equipped with a v5.8 (or
later) Windows Update Agent (basically everything since Win2003SP3).

[Lawrence Garvin [MVP]]

"Lawrence Garvin [MVP]" <lawr...@news.postalias> wrote in message
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>> You are sure that this works both with Vista and XP HOME editions? And
>> also for Win7 Home...?
>
> It works for *ANY* version of Microsoft Windows equipped with a v5.8 (or
> later) Windows Update Agent (basically everything since Win2003SP3).

Arttghhh... darn typos.... should be "...everything since Win=2000= SP3)."