SUS Hot Links

This page contains SUS-related links that are so Hot to handle we had to put them on their own page..!!

If you have any SUS links that you would like to see added to this page please feel free to email me.

Auto Approve New Updates on a Schedule for SUS Script [7/10/03]
Automatic Update Error Codes [3/9/03]
Microsoft's SUS FAQ [27/10/03]
SUS Activity Logger - Monitor the Activity on the SUS Server [24/10/03]
SUS Server Update Notification Script [22/10/03]
Using SUS with Wake-On-LAN [updated 10/9/03]
Windows Update Catalog [24/3/03]

Auto Approve New Updates on a Schedule for SUS Script

Contributed By: Mirko Huth
I found a great VB Script to auto approve new SUS updates. Depending on the available bandwidth just start this script after SUS the synchronisation as a scheduled Task:

Auto Approve New Updates on a Schedule for MS SUS Server
http://www.gatefold.co.uk/sus/

Automatic Update Error Codes

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Reproduced from the SUS Deployment Guide, the following is a list of the common error code arguments that can be received from Automatic Updates... [Go to article]

Microsoft's SUS FAQ

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
The answers to a lot of the questions people ask about SUS can be found in Microsoft's own SUS FAQ:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/susfaq.mspx#top

SUS Activity Logger - Monitor the Activity on the SUS Server

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Our good friend Rod Trent gave me a tip-off about this script that monitors the activity between your SUS clients and the SUS server.

To find out more about the script goto:

http://www.midthought.com/viewtopic.asp?forumid=28&id=386

To see an example of what it looks like and can do goto:

http://www.midthought.com/sus/SUSLogViewer.asp

To download a copy goto:

http://www.midthought.com/sus/SUS_App.zip

SUS Server Update Notification Script

Contributed By: Mirko Huth [MVP SMS]
Here is a script from Glen Sullivan. When SUS has downloaded new updates the SUS Admin gets notified by mail.

http://www.freelists.org/archives/windows2000/01-2003/msg00373.html

This script is good for SUS Admins who don’t like the Auto Approve New Updates on a Schedule for SUS Script because they want to keep control of which updates are installed on the clients.

Using SUS with Wake-On-LAN

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
If you've got users that don't want rescheduled installations occurring a few minutes after their machines have booted up then using Wake-ON-LAN to distribute the updates out-of-hours seems a great solution. If want to know how to use SUS with Wake-On-LAN then Ed van Balen shows you how to here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~equator/suswol/

[updated 10/9/03]
Ed has now updated the page to include details on how to power off your machines after you've woken them up and deployed the updates to them.

Windows Update Catalog

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Want to download all of the Updates for a Given Operating System or Driver Updates for Hardware Devices in one go? Well use the Windows Update Catalog:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog