Updating the Windows Update Agent (WUA) with ConfigMgr

August 20th, 2012 | Posted by Jason in Configuration Manager | Rants | Software Updates - (1 Comments)

With the latest update to WSUS (described in KB2720211) also came an update to the WUA, version 7.6.7600.256; however, this updated WUA is not available for separate download and can only be installed directly via WSUS as described in KB949104. This is somewhat disconcerting for a handful of reasons including the following: There is no …
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ConfigMgr Software Update Management and Group Policy (part 2)

May 29th, 2010 | Posted by Jason in ConfigMgr 2007 | Configuration Manager | Group Policy | Software Updates - (1 Comments)

This post is a continuation of my previous post: ConfigMgr Software Update Management and Group Policy. So how do the rest of the settings in the Windows Updates Group Policy section affect Software Updates in ConfigMgr? The short answer is that they don’t. These settings effectively control how the Windows Update Agent automatically handles updates. …
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ConfigMgr Software Update Management and Group Policy

May 9th, 2010 | Posted by Jason in ConfigMgr 2007 | Configuration Manager | Group Policy | Software Updates - (0 Comments)

There is definitely a lot of confusion about how Group Policies interact with, control, and affect Software Update Management (SUM) on ConfigMgr clients. At the outset of this post (or series of posts), I don’t even know exactly what’s going to happen with some of the different settings and combinations that I’m going to try …
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