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So installing those things just for WSUS is overkill. I only want to keep these windows machines updated easily. Has microsoft made this updating so incredibly difficult it cant even be scripted then?



Manually maintaining your own repository to push out fixes (to the right machines) is a *lot* of hard work.

Installing IIS and MSDE is pretty trivial by comparison - once you've configured a repository and updated your client machines (via GPO) to look at it the only active participation you have to make is to review and approve the updates.

I cannot stress how much easier it will make your life if you go down the WSUS route.