WSUS for Workgroup Computers

We have WSUS set-up and working for our corporate computers and servers, but
we have several servers that are in a workgroup configuration, for security
reasons, but they are on the lan ( ex : Exchange 2007 Edge Servers )...

We want these servers to use our WSUS servers, what are the ways to
configure them, since can't use GPO's ?
From the help file, I see that I have to use the registry, but is there a
better or cleaner way, can I use Server side targeting, server is now
configured for client side targeting...

server side targeting is irrelevant to your question; I think you may be
misunderstanding what it does. (It relates to how computers are assigned to
WSUS groups and has nothing to do with configuring computers to use WSUS.)

Since you aren't in a domain you can't use group policy, so you have to use
registry settings. These are documented here:

<http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/75ee9da8-0ffd-400c-b722-aeafdb68ceb31033.mspx?mfr=true>

If you prefer not to use the registry, and don't mind configuring each server
individually, you could use local group policy.

Configure the computer using Local Policy.

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"sanjeev" wrote in message
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> We have WSUS set-up and working for our corporate computers and servers,
> but
> we have several servers that are in a workgroup configuration, for
> security
> reasons, but they are on the lan ( ex : Exchange 2007 Edge Servers )...
>
> We want these servers to use our WSUS servers, what are the ways to
> configure them, since can't use GPO's ?

This is documented in the WSUS Deployment Guide in the section "Configure
Clients in a Non-Active Directory Environment" at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...44(WS.10).aspx


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