From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Tony,

You can install a Software Update Server, free software from MS that will
download and hold the patches, and the local machines are re-directed to
the local server to get patches.  A Group policy is added to each machine
to change/configure the local machine address.  The SUS handles Win2k,
WinXP and Server2003, but not NT, 98 or ME though.  So, one machine
connected to the internet pulls all the update files, and the internal
network gets their updates from that machine.

It's actually quite efficient, and easy to configure.

The initial setup pulls the entire library of patches for each version of
the OS, but then when you bring a new computer online, you set it to pull
it's patches locally, as well, and all required patches will get applied
locally the first time it connects.

--

Glenn M.
"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
news:420ed660{at}w3.nls.net...
If MS were to offer a way to clone the WU site to a local server your
argument might be useful to those on disconnected networks.


  "Rich"  wrote in message news:420ea9a5{at}w3.nls.net...
     It's a problem of your own creation that I and most people I know do
not have.  I use automated methods and with the manual steps removed there
is no place for me to make an error.

  Rich

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5