re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update'
Tuesday, August 13, 2002 at 8:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Wilson
(2 messages posted)
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 7:00 am, Marinus de Bruyne wrote:
>My question directly involves Enabling or Disabling Automatic Updates.
>I'm busy with a roll-out of round 350 - 400 PC's onto XP. I'm using PowerQuest Drive
>Image to Automize my proces. I'm also making use of Wise installs to install all
>my software. That said, I am also disabling Automatic Updates on all PC's, to avoid:
>1) Network Traffic when a new update occurs.
>2) Avoiding unstable machines with bad MS updates.
>
>My question however is that I find the concept good, but would much rather put my
>own server down in the local network ,so that I can
>1) Evaluate updates of MS first and
>2) Avoid Network traffic and
>3) Do updates when the network is least used.
>
>My problem however is that MS does not provide me with settings to be able to redirect
>the request to my own designated server.
> Can you help??
>
REPLY
I too am curious about this. I understand there is Third Party software available,
but at a hefty price. Has Microsoft provided a solution? Is there a way to change
the install server? Any help would be appreciated.
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