I’ve just set up a WSUS box for our network. For the static machines on the network it’s a piece of cake, I can’t believe I didn’t do it sooner to be honest.
The problem I have is with our laptops. Some people bring theirs in daily which is fine, but others I don’t see for a month at a time and even then they may not connect to the network. It’s no biggie really, I can just set these machines to point to Microsoft for their updates however I’d still like to keep an eye on how up to date they are.
Those that have done this before know that there are two different settings you can define, one for update source and one for statistics. If I leave the update source blank and set the statistics setting to point to my WSUS server, will this reliably communicate back their status when they reconnect to our network?
I can test this myself of course, I just wondered if anyone had done this before and run into any problems/have any tips. One issue I can think of is that the machines won’t be on the network long enough to report back, but we can’t have everything I suppose.
Cheers
The problem I have is with our laptops. Some people bring theirs in daily which is fine, but others I don’t see for a month at a time and even then they may not connect to the network. It’s no biggie really, I can just set these machines to point to Microsoft for their updates however I’d still like to keep an eye on how up to date they are.
Those that have done this before know that there are two different settings you can define, one for update source and one for statistics. If I leave the update source blank and set the statistics setting to point to my WSUS server, will this reliably communicate back their status when they reconnect to our network?
I can test this myself of course, I just wondered if anyone had done this before and run into any problems/have any tips. One issue I can think of is that the machines won’t be on the network long enough to report back, but we can’t have everything I suppose.
Cheers
