From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:47:42 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:s2rt01pp624gfnc6t4vfguck52durco3t1{at}4ax.com...
>
>>  You'd still need a bridgehead to MS to import updates for your
>> disconnected net, of course, perhaps a non-secure machine with
>> internet access and a DVD burner,
>
>Can you do that, import the patches to an SUS server manually so that it
>doesn't require the MS servers to function?

Sort of.  You always need an SUS server to talk to MS for downloads.

Once that's done, however, you can manually configure content distribution
points, so that you could bridge the "disconnected network" gap
we were talking about.  The below is from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/d/8/cd8ac959-37a8-4e5b-860a-465b179984
af/SUS_Deployguide_sp1.doc

So, while it looks like SUS can be used to solve Tony's hypothetical
"disconnected network" problem, it does not satisfy your concerns
re dependency on MS for updates.

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B. Manual. You can also manually create a content distribution point on a
server running Internet Information Server (IIS) version 5.0 or higher. The
server with the manual content distribution point does not require an
installation of SUS.
To create a manual content distribution point 1.      Confirm that IIS is installed.
2.      Create a folder named \Content
3.      Copy all the files and folders under the \Content\cabs directory
from the source server running SUS to the \Content directory on the server
with the manually-created content distribution point: 4.      Copy the
following files under the VROOT of the default web site
"       \Aucatalog1.cab
"       \Aurtf1.cab
"       \approveditems.txt
5.      Create a VROOT called "Content" and point to the
"\Content\Cabs"
directory

Note: You can only deploy content that has been synchronized via SUS to
other manually-created content distribution points. In other words, you are
taking content from the \Content folder on a server running SUS that can
connect to the Internet, and copy this content to the manually-created
content distribution point. Remember to copy the complete \Content
directory.
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