Some background. I have a small office, I am not an expert in MS operating systems, I have some knowledge and have "administered" our systems since we first had Windows 2000 Server 11 years ago. I seem to know some basics, my IT Consultant says I have more knowledge than many of his other clients. I am running SBS 2008 on 1 Server with multiple roles enabled, including MS Exchange Server. Our IT consutlant disabled WSUS which was fine with me as it would update and sometimes restart workstations at 3:00 a.m. The workstations sometimes render drawings overnight and we lose all the data when they restart in the middle of an operation. I now realize after doing a lot of reading that he could have merely reset the method in which it restarts to ask the admin of the workstation to restart after an update, (we have each user sign on with local admin rights), however, I'm OK not running WSUS. My standard log on is as a Domain Admin by the way.
So my problem is that I just built a new workstation here at the office that I took home so I could work remotely, through the internet, when I wanted to. The new WStation is Windows 7 Pro, 64Bit and I logged it onto our network when I installed the OS. Unbeknownst to me, it set the new computer to update through WSUS, which I thought was totally disabled, and probably set a few other policies I don't know about. I was able to easlily manually update the new computer while here at the office with MS Windows Update which appeared to work just fine manually. I didn't realize what settings would be changed and took the computer home. But now, I find I can't manually update through Windows Update, I get an error message. I'm not up to speed on Windows 7. We have used Windows XP Pro up until now for all our workstations. I purposely used Windows 7 Pro on this new computer so that I could get familiar with it on my own and be better prepared when we update our computers next year to Windows 7 Pro.
What I would like to happen is to have all my admin rights and priveleges on the home computer workstation, be able to log on remotely to work, get email remotely, work on my office workstation, etc. and get the update service working. There may be other issues that I will need to address too as I'm not too clear on what is changed through the various policies etc. when I logged onto the office network when I installed the OS. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps that is too broad a topic for this forum though.
My immediate desires would then be, how do I change this situation so that I can update the computer at home manually or automatically through MS Windows Update?
Do I need to bring the computer back to the office, connect to the network and then disable the feature in the WSUS Console by deleting the computer? (The only computer in any of the groups on the WSUS console on the SBS 2008 Server is the new one, the computer is listed in "Update Services Client Computer"). It also has a yellow triangle and exclamation point in the first column.
Should I just delete the computer in the WSUS console and then what settings do I change on the Workstation to get it to update either manually or automatically? Does the new computer need to be logged on here at the office to do this and get the settings to change automatically? Can I log on remotely and do all this?
A step by step instruction would be most helpful.
And if anyone knows, how do I change the roaming profile on the new computer so I can access the documents & settings folders. I seem to be locked out.
Thanks.
Bogie