howto Define WSUS server for Dynamic Update?

[Daan]

Hi,

I cannot seem to find information on how to define a WSUS server for Dynamic Update (While installing Vista unattended)

I added this to my unattend.xml:

<DynamicUpdate>
     <Enable>false</Enable>
</DynamicUpdate>

According to this (http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/5a3f8d70-c5fc-42bf-be97-cbd66e6fe61c1033.mspx?mfr=true) technet page, it should be possible: "You can use Windows Server Update Services or a system management solution to cause Dynamic Update to use a server you configure instead of the Windows Update Web site.".

But I cannot seem to find any information on how to do this..

Has someone already tried someting like this?

[Daan]

**kick**

[Flamin Joe]

Sorry for digging up an old post but I found this during searching for the exact same thing. I'm looking to do the same but I cannot find any information anywhere about how to do it, just information that you CAN do it. WSUS 3.0 even has the option to download Dynamic Updates for Vista in the packages, but even search for help with WSUS doesn't come up with anything. Frustrating to say the least.

I've had a look a the <DynamicUpdate> function in the unattend.xml, and there are only two options available. One being the one you posted to enable it, the other being WillShowUI, which apparently "specifies in what circumstances to display the user interface for dynamic updates". Not exactly sure what that means and I haven't had the chance to try.

Can anyone shed any light on how to this? Would be very much appreciated.

[tazmaniandevil]

Setting

<DynamicUpdate>
<Enable>true</Enable>
</DynamicUpdate>

in the windowsPE pass of WDSClientUnattend will allow setup to download dynamic updates from Microsoft as long as there is no caching proxy in the path. We do have a web cache here, and dynamic updates still work fine. I assumed it was getting the updates from WSUS

[Flamin Joe]

Setting

<DynamicUpdate>
<Enable>true</Enable>
</DynamicUpdate>

in the windowsPE pass of WDSClientUnattend will allow setup to download dynamic updates from Microsoft as long as there is no caching proxy in the path. We do have a web cache here, and dynamic updates still work fine. I assumed it was getting the updates from WSUS

Ok so you need to be using WDS in order to get this working? Or does the <DynamicUpdate> in the Unattend.xml do the same thing?

[tazmaniandevil]

I'm not sure. AFAIK if you have a direct route to the internet at install, it should work. I only ever do WDS installs, so have never tried DU using any other method.