>Greetings,
> We have been unable to get Windowsupdate working in our environment
>for quite some time now, and solutions I have seen posted on-line do
>not seem to work for us.
> We have implemented a SUS server on our internal network segment,
>which works fine, but the public network segment cannot get updates due
>to timeout issues.
> I have added ACL's to deny caching to .microsoft.com, but it does not
>appear to make any difference.
> I have blocked outgoing port 80, forcing everyone on our network to go
>through the proxy.
> If I open up outgoing port 80 on the firewall for a particular IP, the
>IP can hit windowsupdate just fine. As soon as it goes through the
>proxy, it times out.
> Any ideas ?
Use the tool 'proxycfg' shipped with Windows:
proxycfg -u # set windowsupdate proxy to IE-proxy
proxycfg -d # reset windowsupdate proxy
M.
