Installing Windows updates with logging on as admin?

Several of our users are being put back to limited use accounts, yet we wish to still be able to do updates as they come in. I know with Office, you can set up a short cut to get it to install with admin permission on a non admin account. Can this be done with updates as well and can it be automated to run at night after system maint. is done?

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dynamik

Why don't you just setup WSUS?

HeroPsycho

+1 for WSUS and GPO that allows non-admins to do this.

Ahriakin

If you can't go with WSUS schedule their update times, automatic udpates will install for non-admin users (they just can't manually run Windows updates). But there really is no reason not to run WSUS, excellent tool.

blargoe

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Slowhand

I'll put in another vote for WSUS. This situation is exactly what it was designed for.

Silentsoul

For all you WSUS gurus, I have a replication server that is pushing out updates by GPO, every now and then I get a machine that does not like to update. OR like the issue now, a machine that wants to update 120 times every time it shuts off.

Any ideas? I was thinking something was wrong with the GPO but it works for every other machine in my enterprise.

Any of you guys ran into this one before?