Uses WSUS offline to push patches to networked machines

[philq76]

Hi all, I have a closed network system with a server and 5 networked machines. They are not on the internet, of course. Is there a way to use the WSUS Offline to update the server and then push the patches to the workstations, either using WSUS itself or some other method? Thanks for any input!

[boco]

WSUSOU cannot update the WSUS server. However, all downloaded Updates are in the .\client subdirectory, which can be shared easily across the network.

[philq76]

Thanks. Can you share how to do this?

[aker]

Just create a network share and mount it as network drive on the target systems (important: mount it twice, one time with normal user rights and one time with administrative rights).

[philq76]

Thanks. Definitely will give this a shot.

[OREO]

Just create a network share and mount it as network drive on the target systems (important: mount it twice, one time with normal user rights and one time with administrative rights).

Hi Aker,

May I know what's the reason for mounting it twice as I've just encountered this error below and was wondering if your solution related to this problem that I'm facing.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-hhFBwzbwqPdnFobXVlaV9nNXM/view?usp=sharing

Thank you.

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Hi.

If you run UpdateInstaller.exe from a network share using a UNC path, UpdateInstaller.exe will do the mounting stuff for you.
If you want to run DoUpdate.cmd directly, you'll have to mount the network share to a drive letter yourself, e.g. in your wrapping cmd script, using an elevated/privileged cmd.exe environment.

Note there's no way to really push the patches to the workstations. Like it is when using the Microsoft WSUS server, the clients have to scan for missing updates on their own.

RTW