From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:09:01 -0500, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>Gimme a break.  Manage a domain just to run SUS, which is probably also dumbed
>down and lacking control?  (Actually, gotta look at that beast.  Healthy
>pessimism is one thing, ignorance is another.)

OK, I've been doing a little digging, and AD domain is not a requirement
(see the excerpt from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/7/bf73ffa1-39ed-4cc1-b9eb-4c99154b31
b4/SUSOverview.doc
listed below.   I haven't been able to determine yet whether a
sneaker-net can be used to synchronize SUS servers if they are physically
disconnected, as in Tony's scenario.

The regedits below may work on XP Home machines, but I don't have one handy
(thank goodness!) so can't say.

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In a non-Active Directory environment, an administrator can set registry
settings to configure Automatic Updates. The following settings are added
to the registry of each Windows client at this location:
    HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
"       NoAutoUpdate
Range = 0|1. 0 = Automatic Updates is enabled (default), 1 = Automatic
Updates is disabled.
"       AUOptions
Range = 2|3|4. 2 = notify of download and installation, 3 = auto download
and notify of installation, and 4 = auto download and scheduled
installation. All options notify the local administrator. "      
ScheduledInstallDay
Range = 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7. 0 = Every day; 1 through 7 = the days of the week
from Sunday (1) to Saturday (7). "       ScheduledInstallTime
Range = n; where n = the time of day in 24-hour format (0-23). "      
UseWUServer
Set this to 1 to enable Automatic Updates to use the Software Update
Services server as specified in the WUServer value. To determine which
server running Software Update Services your clients and servers go to for
their updates, place the following two settings in the registry at this
location:
    HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
"       WUServer
Sets the Windows Update intranet server by HTTP name (for example,
http://intranetSUS).
"       WUStatusServer
Sets the Windows Update intranet statistics server by HTTP name (for
example, http://intranetSUS).
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