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Deploying Microsoft Software Update Services

Microsoft Corporation
Published: January 2003

Abstract
This white paper describes the deployment of Microsoft® Software Update Services, a newtool for managing and distributing critical Windows patches that resolve known security vulnerabilities and other stability issues in Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003operating systems.
Software Update Services leverages the successful Windows Automatic Updates service first made available in Windows XP, and allows information technology professionals to configure aserver that contains content from the live Windows Update site in their own Windows-based intranets to service corporate servers and clients.
The purpose of this white paper is to help plan and deploythe Software Update Services solution. Readers are walked through all necessary installation and configuration steps required to deploy both a server running Software Update Services and the AutomaticUpdates client.
The target audience of this document is the IT administrator that is planning, evaluating, or deploying the Software Update Services software in order to automatically and securelykeep Windows computers in their network up-to-date with security patches and other critical updates.

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