Workstation autoupdate policy not working

[DaveT]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?)

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong group; I didn't see any Windows 2003
Server groups.

Anyway, I have a problem getting workstations (all running Windows XP SP1)
to autoupdate from Windows Update per the group policy setting I have
defined in the Active Directory OU. The strange thing is that the same
group policy also handles Microsoft Office installations, which is working
fine.

The OU is called "Workstations" and here is what I have enabled in the group
policy:

Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows
Update:
- Configure Automatic Updates: Enabled with 4 - Auto download and schedule
the installation Every Day at 22:00.

The "specify Intranet location of update server" is set to Not Configured.

Is there something else I need to turn on somewhere?

Thanks for any insights...

Dave


Dave

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?)

According to the link below if the intranet server is disabled or not defined,
Windows Update website should be used. You might want to check the
windowsupdate.log on a couple of clients to see if it contains any helpful info.
There is a Microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs newsgroup that would also be a
good place to post. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/dmebh_sus_wviy.asp


"DaveT" <youknowme13@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:zQ6Vc.69936$Oi.33658@fed1read04...
> Sorry if this is posted in the wrong group; I didn't see any Windows 2003
> Server groups.
>
> Anyway, I have a problem getting workstations (all running Windows XP SP1)
> to autoupdate from Windows Update per the group policy setting I have
> defined in the Active Directory OU. The strange thing is that the same
> group policy also handles Microsoft Office installations, which is working
> fine.
>
> The OU is called "Workstations" and here is what I have enabled in the group
> policy:
>
> Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows
> Update:
> - Configure Automatic Updates: Enabled with 4 - Auto download and schedule
> the installation Every Day at 22:00.
>
> The "specify Intranet location of update server" is set to Not Configured.
>
> Is there something else I need to turn on somewhere?
>
> Thanks for any insights...
>
> Dave
>
>
> Dave
>
>