The last straw was confiuring the 2008 R2 server to act like it was on a home network and not a public one. I think that allowed the some relaxed firewall rules. As soon as I did that and logged back into my XP test box some 17 updates were downloaded and ready to be installed.
Being the cool guy I am, I skipped reading any documentation and jumped right to the adding roles in 2008, which is really too darn easy. That downloaded and installed WSUS 3.0 SP2, I believe and installed IIS as well. The only piece that needed to be added manually was the 2008 report viewer. After figuring out how to manipulate windows upate settings in the local GPO settings byrunning gpoedit.msc and navigating to computer configuration, administrative templates, windows configuration, windows updates and setting the intranet server I was good to go. There is a command to manually check for updates that I didn’t have to use: wuauclt.exe /detectnow which could be very handy…
Now I need to figure out how to get it to work with Windows 7 and Vista and I’ll be set. After that I’ll need to look at fixing DNS – basically I need to add something from my DHCP server so that leases including a dns suffix, like atlas.xxxx for which I can make my DNS servers authoritative. It would be cake if I had a domain but running Windows Home Server complicates that a bit…
Moving from one issue to another, I guess. At least we finished the laminate flooring in the office today so I can mark down at least one real accomplishment 🙂
–Nat