MS Software Update Service.

[thingy]

I've downloaded SUS and installed it on our web server. It's been configured, I've told it to grab all the updates, but when I go to the screen where I'm meant to approve them, I get nothing. I simply have the menu bar thing on the left, and the right pane is blank.

I've gone through the documentation and couldn't find anything - it simply lists the steps (which I've been through), but I can't find anything for when those steps don't work.

I'm hoping someone's had experience with it and can help me out.

[Lord_Phat]

sus is a free product, so it gets that level of support...

certainly i haven't come across that issue

i assume the synchronisation took a good 12371239071 hours and completed successfully? :)

[thingy]

12371239071.5 actually, and yes, it did complete successfully.

I've tried re-installing over the top - because of the servers usage I haven't tried removing it (reboots required it seems).

[Lord_Phat]

hmm

have you previously run iis lockdown on the server before installing sus?

i know that causes problems++

don't know what else to say, really :)

tis one of the few ms products i have had to play around with recently :D

[thingy]

Nope. When it was initially installed it fucked with the permissions of the other web & ftp sites this server runs which pissed me off no-end. Fixed all those up. I've gone through the file-level permissions to all the directories it's in, and I'm doing it all with an account that's got full admin access. [shrugs]

[thingy]

Well, I've completely removed it and re-installed. I discovered that it has installed itself into IIS, but last time it took control of the "default web site" which we had previously disabled (hence my not checking it in prior diagnosis).


This time I deleted the default web site before installing. It created its own website in IIS MMC to which I then made the folowing changes:
* Specified an IP addy for it so it was no longer using "all unassigned".
* Change the permissions to execute scripts AND executables, not just scripts.
* I also had to copy \sus\vroot\shared to \shared (one of the pages gave errors about not being able to see \shared - figured it was probably not programmed well enough to look under sub-folders of a URL which is where I had installed it)

After all that it seems to be loading up something for the patch authorisation section.

I'm re-downloading the patches (why I could not just copy them across is beyond me), so I'll put in another update tomorrow with how that went.