This can take a couple of cycles /if/ the latest WU/MU client isn't installed on your Windows Server 2003 box.
You can always go to the WindowsUpdate site and update the WU client manually (or install the Microsoft Update client). After that, all you should need to do is: Wuauclt /detectnow And then look in the Windows Update.log file (note the space) to see what is happening. As someone noted, the initial detection can take a while and you don't see any icon during the detection process. For the updates you approved - I assume you approved them for a group or for "all computers". The client isn't in the unassigned computers group or similar is it? Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 8:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to run WindowsUpdate on demand, with WSUS v3? So I've set up a WSUS v3 server. Following the examples, I have a GPO linked to a test OU, and a test machine in the OU. The test machine has the GPO applied, and so it knows to get it's updates from the WSUS server ("gpresult" shows my GPO being applied). I have the GPO configured for "Notify for download, and notify for install", which is how the boss wants it; he wants to pick and choose which updates to apply and download, even beyond whatever ones I've marked as "Approved". I've approved a number of the critical updates, and want to have my test server go and get them *now*, rather than on the scheduled time of 3AM. I've tried "wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow" on the client machine, to no (seeming) affect. So how can I go and get these updates now? When I do the "normal" way of WindowsUpdate (i.e., open a browser and go to "http://www.update.microsoft.com/";), it seems to actually go to the real MS site, and not just show me my small approved list of updates (for example, that way, I see the "Mailicious Software Removal Tool", which I explicitly DECLINED as an update). So it doesn't seem to be actually going to my WSUS server. Yet the WSUS server knows about the client, and I can run a report from the WSUS server, and see the client. <http://www.update.microsoft.com/> Any clues and pointers gratefully appreciated -- Michael Leone Network Administrator, ISM Philadelphia Housing Authority 2500 Jackson St Philadelphia, PA 19145 Tel: 215-684-4180 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
