SUS 2.0 - Service Pack / Office support

[Todd Major]

I was wondering is SUS 2.0 would support deploying service packs and
office updates. I have a lot of machines that need service pack
updates and I'd rather not use the old sneaker net. Office updates
and enhanced reporting would be great too.

Any idea when 2.0 is coming out? It seems like people have been
talking about if for a few months now.

Thanks,

Todd

[Scott]

Todd,

An email was sent out by Microsoft this week (included below) for people to
nominate for the SUS 2.0 (Pre-release) Beta program.

Information from the nomination page:
- Support for Windows, Office, SQL, and Exchange patches
- Reporting capabilities - deployment status about download, install and
impacted machines.
- Ability to uninstall patches that support uninstall
- More Administrative controls - patch install, uninstall, install by a
deadline, and configurable client polling intervals.
- Targeting of different updates to administrator defined groups of
machines.

There is other information provided about the program. Take a look,
consider signing up.

Regards
Scott

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Subject: The Microsoft Software Update Services 2.0 Pre-release Program
(Beta) is now accepting nominations!

The Microsoft Software Update Services (MSUS) 2.0 Pre-release Program is now
accepting nominations!

The vision for MSUS is to provide an efficient and effective means to keep
all Microsoft products up to date with the latest patches, starting with
Windows, Office, SQL, and Exchange in MSUS 2.0.

The key to an effective pre-release program is having customers participate
who are willing and able to install, exercise, and provide feedback on the
product in a timely manner. Please carefully consider your organization's
willingness and ability to follow through on these commitments.

Your organization's eligibility for the program is based on the information
we obtain from your nomination survey and space availability in the program.

For more information on what's new in MSUS 2.0, information on and dates for
the program, and to nominate your organization, please click the "BetaPlace"
link below.

The following requires a .NET Passport account. If you don't have one, you
can obtain one at www.passport.com.

1. Go to http://www.betaplace.com/ .
2. Click the "Sign In" button in the middle of the page.
3. Sign in with your passport account.
4. If you're enrolled in another active Microsoft Beta program through
BetaPlace you'll get the following option, if not, go to step 5.
Chose the Guest ID option near the top of the page, the "clicking here"
link.
5. In the Guest ID field enter "MSUSCustNom", it's case sensitive, and click
"OK".
6. Click the "Microsoft Software Update Services" link at the bottom of the
page.
This will take you to the home page for the MSUS 2.0 Pre-release Program.
You'll be provided with more detailed information on MSUS 2.0 and its
pre-release program.
7. Click the "Survey" link in the left frame
8. Click the "MSUS 2.0 TAP Customer Nomination" link just below "Survey".
9. Complete the survey and then click "Submit", at the bottom of the page.

For questions or comments on the MSUS 2.0 Pre-release Program not answered
on BetaPlace please e-mail sus2...@microsoft.com .

Thank you,
The Microsoft Software Update Services Team
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[Ken Schaefer]

Have you considered using Group Policy to deploy service packs?

Cheers
Ken

"Todd Major" <tal...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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: I was wondering is SUS 2.0 would support deploying service packs and

[Todd Major]

I have not tried that yet. I really need something that can be
deployed in a distributed manner since i have 70 locations and the
pipes are not always very big. Do you have any links for tips on
deploying SP4 (and other patches)via Group Policy? How does it
determine whether or not SP4 is already installed? I really haven't
done a whole lot with GP yet.

Thanks,

Todd

"Ken Schaefer" <kenR...@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message news:<#UbJw$SZDHA...@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...

[Todd Major]

Thanks for the information. I can't tell from the information
provided and on the website if MSUS will support applying service
packs. It seems to require at least service pack 3 on the clients
and I still have machines out there that have SP2 (I know....).

Thanks,

Todd

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[Copo]

I havr tried to assign SP3 installation in a test enviornment, and we are
going to do deploy into the production enviornment.

The SP installation MSI will help to detect whether the workstation need to
be insatall the service pack or not. After you have assign the service pack
installation to the Domain/OU, and when you logon the workstation which the
service pack will apply to, it will do the installation just after you have
logged on (no start button, cannot interrupt) and you can only wait until
the installation finish. Then reboot after the installation complete.

[Todd Major]

Sounds great ! I have a question : I have modified the default group
policy at my top level domain with the WU settings. When I look at
the OU's in the domain they do not show the default domain policy. Do
they inhert the higher level GP's or do I have to add the default GP
at each OU level?

Thanks,

Todd

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[Todd Major]

Things are going well, I was able to get the AU client and SP4
deployed with GP. Mostly had problems with permissions, I added
Domain Computers and Authenticated Users as Read access the to shares.
I am also going to add Domain Controllers since they seem to be
having a problem. I've found that the policies are inherited it just
doesn't show them unless you use GPMC or some other tools...

Todd

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