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MadCow
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Posted - 10/27/2010 :  4:15:34 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Looking to push SP3 on Windows XPPSP2 using WSUS.

About 1500 clients on LAN and across high speed WAN link
and about 300 clients of them are low on disk space on C:\.

What would be the best approach? Should I create a group in WSUS and have all the PCs in there which have enough disk space and leave the
PCs out which are low on disk space out and unleash SP3 to this group?? Any deal with the low disk space PCs later?

Any suggestions?

Thank you

Sunny
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JSCLMEDAVE
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Posted - 10/27/2010 :  4:18:52 PM  Show Profile  Visit JSCLMEDAVE's Homepage  Click to see JSCLMEDAVE's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
You could create a group and push out to some of the clients in chunks to ensure you don't wipe out your bandwidth.

Here is the Hard disk space requirements for Windows XP Service Pack 3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947311
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Douggg
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Posted - 10/27/2010 :  5:04:05 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by MadCow

Looking to push SP3 on Windows XPPSP2 using WSUS.

About 1500 clients on LAN and across high speed WAN link
and about 300 clients of them are low on disk space on C:\.

What would be the best approach? Should I create a group in WSUS and have all the PCs in there which have enough disk space and leave the
PCs out which are low on disk space out and unleash SP3 to this group?? Any deal with the low disk space PCs later?

Any suggestions?

Thank you



I would install Secondary WSUS server in the remote office so users won't have to pull the SP across the WAN link.

BranchCache would also reduce traffic but it's a little more complicated to configure.

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MadCow
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Posted - 10/28/2010 :  08:35:58 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Thanks all for your input.

Tim:

I assume installing SP3 using WSUS will also require 1500MB disk space?

Sunny
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It's been over a couple years since I pushed that out so I honestly cannot say 100% yes or no. Agree 100% with Doug on the Secondary WSUS server in the remote office. We had so many issues with ISA 2004 that we just setup a primary WSUS in (at the time) our two other sites. Made life a lot easier...
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MadCow
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We have about 75 sites without any servers at all and have about 10 to 15 PCs in each of those sites.

Few years ago I used GPOs to deploy SP2 to the server sites and to the users with no servers I sent our SP2 CDs and when they received the CDs they called us and we logged in remotely as Admin and manually performed the update. It was loooooon process and took for ever.

This time I want to use WSUS a it can bit stream it. Let's see how I will approach it.

Thanks all for your input.


Sunny
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Douggg
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For SP3 you might want to send a CD or use BranchCache. WSUS will do it but it will take a long time as each PC (10-15 in each office) will have to download SP3 over your WAN link. You would be better offer off sending SP3 bits to the office once (CD, BrachCache) and installing.
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