You lot know everything (I Hope)

matthewhotdude · 16 Apr 2009 at 23:33

You lot know everything (I Hope) WSUS

Im trying to use WSUS on Vista home premium Does anyone know what the registry values are? Ive been looking on the net all night, I found one site which said to copy the following into a notpad document save it as .reg then install it. But when I click on the registry file it wont add it saying you can only import binary values

"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]

"WUServer"="http://hpserver:8530/"

"WUStatusServer"="http://hpserver:8530/"

"ElevateNonAdmins"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]

"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000

"AUOptions"=dword:00000004

"ScheduledInstallDay"=dword:00000000

"ScheduledInstallTime"=dword:00000005

"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001

"AutoInstallMinorUpdates"=dword:00000001

"NoAUShutdownOption"=dword:00000000

"NoAUAsDefaultShutdownOption"=dword:00000000

"UseWUServer"=dword:00000001

"RescheduleWaitTimeEnabled"=dword:00000001

"RescheduleWaitTime"=dword:00000005

"DetectionFrequencyEnabled"=dword:00000001

"DetectionFrequency"=dword:00000004

"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000

"RebootWarningTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000001

"RebootWarningTimeout"=dword:00000005

"IncludeRecommendedUpdates"=dword:00000001

"AUPowerManagement"=dword:00000001"

K.C. Leblanc · 17 Apr 2009 at 00:05

Have you noticed you've got a space in Windows on the 5th line. If that doesn't fix it you could try the following.

Try breaking that reg file into several smaller reg files, to help track down the line causing the problem.

Setup a machine with Vista business or Ultimate with a GPO on you WSUS server and then copy it's reg values.

Upgrade to Vista Business or Ultimate.

EDIT: I could be being daft since I don't know Vista very (and I can;t even remember when I last used a machine with XP home), but can you use local policies to set this up?

matthewhotdude · 17 Apr 2009 at 00:23

Don't know where that space came from, just looked in my file and it's not there. Windows Vista home doesnt come with local policies, the only way to do it is editing the registry

iaind · 17 Apr 2009 at 08:28

I don't know the answer to your question off the top of my head, but I should ask (a common question around here) - why? Can't see why you would want WSUS at home or Vista Home in a business...

Ringiho · 17 Apr 2009 at 10:34

I believe it needs a line at the top.

It looks like:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/x-matroska"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ts]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/x-matroska"

matthewhotdude · 17 Apr 2009 at 11:19

Ringiho said:
I believe it needs a line at the top.

It looks like:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/x-matroska"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ts]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/x-matroska"

Haha you must think im stupid, I Have sorted it myself now anyway by adding the info into the registry manually

Ringiho · 17 Apr 2009 at 12:08

What I meant by that was the 'Windows Registry...' bit at the top.

That just allows you to view MKVs in Media Center...

Was the only example I could think of.

matthewhotdude · 17 Apr 2009 at 12:15

Ohhh lol sorry

brainchylde · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:25

Why don't you just use gpedit?

dan653 · 28 Apr 2009 at 22:11

brainchylde said:
Why don't you just use gpedit?

its vista home, only ultimate and business versions have it, hence the registry edits, just had to do something similar at work to enable vista home pc to access an NT server.