WSUS on OEM Systems


For those consultants who have clientele with servers installed with an image from an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), an issue with the installation of WSUS on these original installed images has been identified. Note that this does not occur on machines that have been reinstalled from scratch using OEM media, merely those that use the original image from the manufacturer. If you go to install WSUS on an OEM machine, if the installation is still the original manufacturer image, the install will fail and you will have to manually install (see Figure 22.16). (It is expected that this issue will ultimately be resolved; however, if you come upon one of these servers that have this issue there is a relatively pain free workaround.)

Figure 22.16. Installing WSUS on an OEM preinstalled machine with failure.


The steps are similar to those performed on the normal WSUS install with one change. The WMSDE database is manually deployed first:

1.

Download the WSUS installer to your computer.

2.

On the SBS server, create a folder called C:\WSUSFiles (or other drive letter where you have temporary room).

3.

Download http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updateservices/downloads/WSUS.mspx Windows Software Update Services from the website, clicking through Passport and answering questions as noted.

4.

Save the file to the C:\WSUSFiles directory.

5.

Extract the WSUS setup files using the command WSUSSetup.exe /X.

6.

Change to the newly existing directory at C:\WSUSFiles\wmsde.

7.

Type the following command line:

Sqlrun03.msi INSTANCENAME=WSUS BLANKSAPWD=1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=1 DISABLEAGENTSTARTUP=1 DISABLETHROTTLE=1

Note

As a reminder for those interested in the security of databases, this sets up a blank password for the WMSDE database. When the final version of WSUS is installed, a randomly generated password is set.

You can also at this step move the database to another partition by adding Targetdir=D:\WSUS (D: meaning an alternative drive letter) to the command script.

8.

Open the services.msc snap-in, right-click the MSSQL$WSUS, and choose Start. If you do not see the service, run the command line again, repeating step 7.

9.

Install WSUS as outlined in the "Installing WSUS" section earlier in the chapter.

10.

Launch c:\WSUSFiles\WSUSSetup.exe and follow the onscreen instructions, ensuring that you place the patch or data files on a drive that can hold the files. (If you planned to install the WMSDE on an alternative drive, during the install, make sure that you change the defaults from C:\ to the drive letter to which you manually installed WMSDE earlier.)

11.

When the setup is complete, you can delete the C:\WSUSSetup folder. If you configured WSUS to store the update files in C:\WSUS, make sure that you do not delete that folder.




Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed
ISBN: 0672328054
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 253

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