WSUScontent and SCCM optimize HDD space

[faucheur]

Hello,

 

first of all i'd like to thank this website, it's helped me out a lot recently.

 

I've recently been working with SCCM and WSUS, this part works great, i can deploy automatic, static updates to collections, the files download successfully.

However there is something i would like to apply, clients getting the updates from WSUS directly through the packages downloaded from SCCM.

 

let me explain :

 

automatic collection deployement is very good for deploying the windows updates to computers already discovered, with the SCCM client installed.

However when i format a pc, one of the first things to do is a windows update, the registry is correctly configured, to point to the IIS content\Selfupdate\cab file, which points to the WSUScontent folder, i assume.

( in this folder are only packages approuved by the WSUS console) and i suppose that the list of avaible updates are given based on what is downloaded into this folder.

 

1)Therefore why not download the new updates from sccm automatic rules directly into this WSUScontent folder?

 

2)I have tried this but the client doesn't seem to detect any new updates when i start a manual scan of windows updates from a pc linked to WSUS server(without the update installed of course).

 

3)How exactly does the client know where to find the available patches, is there a link between, WSUScontent folder and the database SUSDB necessary in order to "detect" it's presence in this folder? or is it just because of the format of the folder? because the contents of the folder for one patch downloaded by sccm and by WSUS are the same.

 

4)I understand that there are other ways in doing this, like creating a collection of new installed sccm clients and deploying updates to this collection, or installing the necessary updates directly from the WSUS console(what i am doing at the moment), however i would like to save as much disk space as possible and therefore not have duplicate files for the same Windows update.

 

5)I am also aware of the unique law of folders when deploying a SUP package, so does WSUScontent take into account subdirectories? could he read WSUScontent\Win7\00FAhjdhfsd\ "file contents" ?

 

5)while i'm talking about saving disk space, is there any way to directly save a package to a DP folder, i suppose not.

 

6)So in short my question: is it possible to stock folders into this WSUScontent when downloading the WSUS updates from SCCM, so that when a client pc without sccm client installed scans for available Windows updates, he detects the updates downloaded and distributed by sccm which are contained in the WSUScontent folder?

 

hope i made myself clear,

 

thank you for your futur help.

[Jorgen Nilsson]

Hi,

You explained it very well, the answer is no, you need a separate WSUS if you woule like to deploy Updates from WSUS to clients not in SCCM. You should not use the same WSUS server for anything else than SCCM as you will get unexpected behaviour from where updates are deployed and so on.

 

Regards,
Jörgen

[faucheur]

Hello again,

 

thank you for your reply

 

i'm not sure i got the complete message across :

 

i don't want to deploy from the WSUS and the SCCM at the same time.

 

i want to give the possibility to stock the packages used by the sccm deployement, inside the folder that WSUS uses as available sources.

Making these updates available to the clients without having to approuve the same content in the WSUS console.

 

our clients already have the possibilty to either download directly from the approuved packages from WSUS, or the packages deployed by SCCM, however they are stocked in two different locations on the same server containing the same content, but in a different formats.

 

 

Stefan