Thread: Keeping systems up-to-date

This feature is of course use-ful even if you have more than 10 systems on your network. When the number of systems increases on your network. it becomes very difficult to monitor each and every computer and keep it up-to-date. Moreover. if there are say 20 computers on your network and each of them updates itself via Internet. it results in a lot of bandwidth consumption. SBS 2008 is equipped with a nice feature called network updates powered by MS Windows Server Updates services. Take for example. whenever an update is made available, SBS downloads and saves it. and after the confirmation by the administrator. all the systems on the network get updated from SBS system and not via internet. thus saving lots of bandwidth. Supposing SP1 of Vista is released and it has some bugs (suppose) then the update can be postponed for all the system until a stable version is released. eBox doesn't have a update server out-of-the box. if you want. you have to configure it on your own.