rickyj
15 years agoLevel 3
Choose which updates to install when running live update
Hi. I am running windows server 2003. I have Backup exec 12.5 for windows and Symantec Endpoint protection Manager installed on this server. Before I installed SEPM, i was able to pick and choose which updates i wanted to install and see the hotfix information associated with them. Now when i run live update, updates are automatically downloaded and installed. I have already ran the following command to separate backup exec from the automatic SEPM live updates:
C:\PROGRAM FILES\SYMANTEC\BACKUP EXEC
type in the following:
BEUPDATEOPS.EXE -addbe -optout
I would appreciate it if someone could help me re-enable the ability to manually choose these updates. Thanks in advance.
OK what the optin/optout command does is set LiveUpdate to automatically download Backup Exec updates using the SEP schedule or leave Backup Exec set to manual only mode. It does not affect any other settings which are generic to the LiveUpdate Client itself and not part of Backup Exec.
If SEPM is configured in the environment then SEPM will control all the settings of this nature and will probably overwrite any registry modifications you make anyway - after all the point of SEPM policies is to enforce security settings on servers not to let admins bypass them. Note if there are any possible registry keys these would part of LiveUpdate and not Backup Exec. I would therefore still suggest you look at reconfiguring SEPM as changes in Backup Exec will have no effect on your problem.