re: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 5:41 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rod (41 messages posted) Just Curious, If you update one computer on a network, can you update another computer without downloading the updates again? On Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 4:25 am, msec wrote: >Regarding Enabling >or Disabling Automatic Windows Update: > > Automatic Windows Update silently does not update if you have a non-transparent >web proxy between you and the Windows Update site. This is because AWU does not take >account of any proxy settings which may be required, so it fails to connect to the >update server. It doesn't log the failed attempt. > Running 'Windows Update' manually works because it runs within IE, and hence uses >IE's proxy settings. > The only workaround I am aware of is to install Software Update Services on a >machine which can be accessed without going through a proxy (e.g a server on the >local network). SUS allows configuration of proxy settings for its own use. > Written in response to: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (msec: Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 4:25 am) Responses to this message: re: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (msec: Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 5:40 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (msec: Thu, Nov 27, 2003, 4:25 am) re: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (Rod: Thu, Nov 27, 2003, 5:41 am) re: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (msec: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 5:40 pm) re: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (Kevin: Thu, Nov 27, 2003, 5:41 am) re: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (msec: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 2:34 pm) re: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (Christopher Blencowe: Mon, Dec 29, 2003, 5:13 am) re: 'Automatic Windows Update' fails silently behind upstream proxies. (Phillip: Fri, Jun 24, 2005, 1:51 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum