[Lias] Windows Update Server

[Craig Ringer]

 > Does anyone know of OSS software that will emulate Microsoft's
 > Software Update Services (SUS) on a Linux box and which fools desktop
 > clients into thinking it has connected to a Windows Update server.

I'm not aware of anything like that. Unfortunately, Windows Update 
relies heavily on ActiveX controls and other such nasties, making a *NIX 
hosted implementation rather hard.

I'm partially working around it here by downloading the fixes onto one 
machine, then distributing them over the network. At least I save on 
downloads.

If you wanted to go one step further, you could have the machines' 
domain logon scripts automatically execute the patch cache - I've heard 
of this being done quite a bit... think I read about it in Windows for 
Professionals. Google may help with finding ways to intelligently decide 
what to run.

Here, I only have to maintain 10 Windows desktops, the rest being Linux, 
via LTSP (about 10) or MacOS 9 (6). As such, it's easier for me to just 
go around and manually patch them (from a network share, not Windows 
Update) after downloading the fixes on one machine.

Craig Ringer