Sorry, don't know why formatting is messed up. Here's one that Scott commented: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/438747-how-do-you-use-your-it-sharepoint-site

My basic Intranet has the following:

Announcements (Typically reserved for create new for higher ups)
Office Calendar (Almost no brainer and everyone uses this with little or no training)
A few lists
Document Library (Here is where the HR documents can live)
I've got a Dilbert Cartoon feed on the main page. (Varies, but everyone likes it. )
RSS feed to This Day in History (Can be customized to a feed that works for your industry)
Birthday Calendar (Here is my How To)
Weather Web Part
Basic Links to relevant things. They can be folder locations on the network or Internet Links

Lastly, I keep it as one site. I don't allow people to create sub sites willy nilly.

@Dashrender
Give me a moment and I'll give you tons of ways. I'm gonna look to see my responses from SW so I can cut and paste. Once you go SharePoint, you never go back.

Thanks for the link.

Cool. I can't help you other than what I posted because I don't nest my OUs like that.

I thought to apply User policies to Computer and vise versa, you needed to enable loopback policy. I don't mix mine, but I've seen that term mentioned about.

For schools maybe, but for us (a Civil Engineering company) I'd have a riot if we didn't. To be honest, most of the time it is collaborative rather than markup. I personally like the good ole whiteboard myself.

I know in IE, you can set Per Site Privacy Actions under Internet Options/Privacy, but haven't played with that.

Second Veeam hands down. Really an amazing product.

I don't know why, but I love watching bug videos. You know documentaries and whatnot. One that I saw was a fungus that would infect the brain of an ant. However it happened, the ant was compelled to climb a tree as high as he could and when (wait for it........), the fungus exploded its head, it would spray the infection to a wider area. They commented that this was the closest "zombie" behavior they've seen.

The colony was smart though. When the other ants noticed one being infected, they drove that ant out of the colony. Nature is smart.

Wow. A ton of posts from beginning to end of this process. I almost feel like the community just helped deliver a baby.

@Minion-Queen said:

the NTG team still plans on being there, tickets purchased and hotel rooms reserved!

Thanks. Was curious due to all the hub bub. Can I get you guys to paint PSX's belly again?

I doubt you're gonna get banned by calling someone a bad MOD. So does this mean you guys aren't going to Spiceworld this year?

@IRJ said:

@DenisKelley said:

2. Nofiy for the install in the GPO doesnt mean its going to notify me, if I approve it via WSUS, correct? If I dont approve it via WSUS is it still going to bug the user and say updates need to be installed? **Yes, since the PC/Server is "looking" at WSUS and not MS, it will believe WSUS that an update is available when you approve it. And the setting above means that it will download the update from WSUS and then notify you that there are updates that need to be installed. It won't install automatically. **

What about the scheduling option? How does that work?

I just want to approve it from WSUS and have everything donwloaded and then schedule to deploy a few PCs at a time

Like Dashrender noted, you'll need different Group Policies. They way it works is when you approve the group in WSUS, then the GP tied to that group gets enforced. So if you had TEST Group 1 with download and install automatically at 3AM, then once you approve an update for that group, the PC will download the update (next time it talks to WSUS), then at 3AM, it will then install the update.

If you do install and notify for a particular GP, then after approving, the PC or Server will just note that you are ready to install. One of the best how-to's talking about all of this is available on Microsoft called WSUS 3.0 Install Guide. Your version may be different, but this was a great guide I used years back when learning. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=913

@Dashrender
The MicroServer can take 4 SATA drives, will run in RAID 10 mode, had two Gigabit NICs plus an iLO port and costs about $500.

The other setting(s) are:

1. No auto-restart with logged on users
2. Reschedule Automatic Updates scheduled installations. This is used for machines which you set it to update automatically. Not the way you have it configured in your example, just noting it.

@IRJ said:

I am new to WSUS. I built a WSUS Server and created all my Target groups and I want to approve some updates that 80%+ of our PCs already have.

I configured 3 Settings in Group Policy on the client computers. The one that I am concerned about is "Configure Automatic Updates".

Here are my questions:

1. If approve an update, it will only install on the time, I specified in the GPO, correct?** Yes, but there is another setting in GP that will make it try to do that if it failed to do so during that time. Just need to find it.**

2. Nofiy for the install in the GPO doesnt mean its going to notify me, if I approve it via WSUS, correct? If I dont approve it via WSUS is it still going to bug the user and say updates need to be installed? **Yes, since the PC/Server is "looking" at WSUS and not MS, it will believe WSUS that an update is available when you approve it. And the setting above means that it will download the update from WSUS and then notify you that there are updates that need to be installed. It won't install automatically. **

@Dashrender
I'm currently using the ReadyNAS 316 (I know 6 bays), but they do make 4 bay models. It has worked sufficiently so far for my backups. I also did recently test the HP MicroServer that wasn't too shabby either. I can link my review here if you like.

Yeah that post just went crazy.