Thursday, February 16, 2012

Local Group Policies affected by ConfigMgr 2007 Software Updates


                   When ConfigMgr Software Updates client agent is enabled, the local group policy used by windows update agent "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" will be modified by ConfigMgr agent at the client side. There are 15 other policies which are related to Windows Update Agent as well. Those will not be modified by the ConfigMgr.










            It's advised to not configure other policies in AD. Although disabling the policies in AD won't make any difference it's better to leave it NOT CONFIGURED. But if the "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" policy is configured in AD, it will cause the below error in WUAhandler.log
"Group policy settings were overwritten by a higher authority" and scan gets affected.
The above Group policies can be found under: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components in GPO editor.

Peer Mohamed | Senior System Engineer