Archive for October, 2008

OCS Software Update Service Adventures

So you may have read some blog posts about the perils of installing OCS SUS, to update the Tanjay device. I recently attempted this myself and hit several glitches. This is definitely not an easy procedure.

When you begin with the OCS SUS Deployment Guide, it assumes that you have a SharePoint site collection at http://<hostname-of-sharepoint-server> listening on port 80. The SUS SharePoint site MUST be located at http(s)://<hostname-of-sharepoint-server>/sites/UCUpdateServer. The UCUpdateServer site will be created by the SUS SharePoint installation process but the root Site Collection must already exist for the Deployment Guide to make any sense. The Deployment Guide refers to the root site collection as SharePoint-80.

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