[aklug] Re: Linux - Windows Update Server

There is an "Add-On" for IpCop just for caching windows updates.

http://www.advproxy.net/update-accelerator/

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:12 -0800, Marc Grober wrote:
> I looked at a client side solution once upon a time, setting all the products to
> update via an MSI store on my unix store, but that is a far cry form an active
> server side system that polls and maintains a data set (and users were always
> freaked when their machines started doing stuff when they opened an app........
> I think you could do this by pointing all your computers to a proxy cache while
> you used one computer to force uploads to the cache, but that's not a very sexy
> solution ;=}
>
> I have been told that zenworks does the deed best, but it is not free.... but
> then nothing really is......
> http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/configurationmanagement/
>
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> barsalou wrote:
> > Quoting Kevin Browning <psksb1@uaa.alaska.edu>:
> >
> >> Have any of you successfully created a Windows Update server in linux?
> >>
> >> I have a lot of windows machines that need updates and I would like to have
> >> the updates on the LAN. I have an OS X server that stores updates for our OS
> >> X machines which is a huge time saver.
> >>
> >
> > After googling around a little I found this interesting article:
> >
> > http://www.wsuswiki.com/ContentOnNetworkDrive
> >
> > Although it doesn't directly solve your problem, you might be able to
> > make use of it.
> >
> > Mike B.
> >
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