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Do Clients Need Admin Rights in Order to Download SUS Updates?

I've installed SUS and it's working great....as long as you have local admin rights on the client side. The options are limited for non-admin users, to say the least. The value for 'AUOptions' must be equal to '4'. I've yet to test that option with 'NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers' set to '1'. I'd appreciate it if anyone has this working, to just drop a line saying so.

Contributed By: Wayne Flynn
Downloading occurs via anonymous connection to the SUS server. All systems can do this effectively unless you have played with the security settings of IIS or the content directories. The only admin privileges required are to administer the SUS options and to approve updates as the updates are downloaded and installed using the system context.

It would be pretty silly if every client computer had to have admin privileges in order to download it's updates from the SUS server.

From the microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs newsgroup
The current version doesn't allow any interaction with the Automatic Updates user interface for non-admin users, and the only way to install updates for non-admin users is to configure Automatic Updates to do scheduled installs. Microsoft are looking at providing the ability for non-admin users to interact with AU in future versions.