Re: [squid-users] Major malfunction: Squid and Windows Update

hi joost,

Can u plz tell what configuration are to be made on the client to get
windows update working .

I m awared this is out of forum question . But i need this help.

Regards
Dev

On 5/4/05, Joost de Heer <sanguis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > You ask if you can use Squid to cache windows update, and the answer is
> > that you would have been able if Microsoft had wanted this to be
> > possible. Unfortunately Microsoft does not seem too keen on making Windows
> > update cache friendly, and each new release of Windows Update is
> > increasingly more unfriendly to caches, making life increasingly difficult
> > for people with low bandwidth connections.
>
> MS has a tool called SUS, which downloads patches. You have to configure
> your clients to use that server as source for patches, instead of
> windowsupdate. This should prevent multiple downloads of the same patch.
>
> Joost
>
>
Received on Thu May 05 2005 - 03:21:19 MDT