I've just set up a new SMS fo

[Zaw]

I've just set up a new SMS for our network (500 clients). For testing purposes, I distributed Windows 2000 SP3 to 10 test clients -- unattended (without user input..I used /q and /z switches). I would like to turn off "Automatic Updates" (the option that comes with SP3). When I set up to get it turned off in Group Policy via AD on a couple of test machines, it seems that it reloads the SP3 again with "Automatic Windows Updates" disabled. It came out fine but it was pointless to have SMS load the SP AND to have AD/Group Policy re-load with the updates turned off.

So my question here is: Is there any switch that goes with the command line to run the setup file when deploying the Windows 2000 Servie Pack 3 via SMS, which disables the Automatic Windows in the process?

 

[RodTrent]

There's actually a combination of registry keys that need to be addressed to control the Windows Update feature. Here's the list:

http://www.myitforum.com/articles/12/view.asp?id=3812

Rod Trent
Microsoft.MVP.SMS
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