Exam Objectives Frequently Asked Questions

The following Frequently Asked Questions, answered by the authors of this book, are designed to both measure your understanding of the Exam Objectives presented in this chapter, and to assist you with real-life implementation of these concepts.

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What happened to the Corporate Windows Update Web site? How am I going to download updates in bulk now?

A.  The Corporate Windows Update Web site was replaced in early 2002 by two new services from Microsoft: Software Update Services and the Windows Update Catalog. Of these, the Windows Update Catalog functions in roughly the same manner that the old Corporate Windows Update Web site. You can select updates by operating system and download them to your servers for testing and deployment.

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I have a Small Business Server 2000 running for my small company. Can I install the Software Update Services on my server to keep my six computers up to date?

A.  No. Because the SBS server would be the domain controller, you cannot install and use SUS on that server. If you placed another member server in the network, you could run SUS from it and keep all the other network computers up to date.

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I have installed the Software Update Services on a member server in my company, but my Automatic Updates clients are getting updates that I have not approved. What is wrong?

A.  The most likely cause of this issue is that you have not installed the newest version of Automatic Updates (required to function with SUS) and you have not configured the Automatic Updates client behavior in Group Policy to pull updates from your internal servers. Until you configure Automatic Updates from Group Policy, it can (and will) continue to pull downloads from the Windows Update servers.

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What makes it unsafe to install multiple hotfixes without restarting the computer after each one?

A.  Hotfixes are applied on the subsequent restart of the computer. Should two hotfixes both modify the same file, it is possible that the first one applied could update a file to a newer version, and then the second one applied could overwrite this file with an older version. This can create loss of functionality and system instability. Applying hotfixes with the Qchain.exe utility is the only way to avoid this sort of problem in most cases. (Nothing's perfect—you heard it here first!)

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What is the difference between HFNetChk and MBSA?

A.  HFNetChk only checks for missing critical updates and service packs; MBSA scans a computer for all sorts of security flaws such as weak or blank passwords and a host of other issues. HFNetChk only runs from the command line, whereas MBSA can be run from the command line or from within the GUI.



MCSE. MCSA Implementing & Administering Security in a Windows 2000 Network Study Guide Exam 70-214
MCSE/MCSA Implementing and Administering Security in a Windows 2000 Network: Study Guide and DVD Training System (Exam 70-214)
ISBN: 1931836841
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 162

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