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Windows Auto Update & Corp Firewall
Name: Brian Wall Date: October 20, 2003 at 05:20:36 Pacific OS: Win 2000/XP CPU/Ram: P4/512MB
Comment:
I'm trying to run automatic windows update every wednesday at 2 pm. 2PM rolls around and nothing happens, even waited like 45 min. The PC is behind MS Proxy 2.0 on our corporate network. What do i need to do to our firewall to let automatic windows update through? It works fine outside the firewall/network. Running windows 2000.
Name: Jon Date: October 21, 2003 at 11:01:20 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried installing the proxy 2.0 firewall client on the PC? This gives the PC access to some things on the Internet not accessible otherwise.
Another option is to open up the port on the firewall that Windows Update is trying to use. I don't know what that is right now, though.
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Response Number 2
Name: Brian Wall Date: October 23, 2003 at 07:55:57 Pacific
Reply:
I tried loading the proxy client, no luck. I was thinking about opening the port on the firewall, but don't know which one it uses. Might you know the port Windows Auto Update uses? Again, the auto-update DOES work OUTSIDE the firewall.
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