WSUS Clients Not Reporting / GPO Question

We have a WSUS installation that we only want to use for auditing puposes in 
combination with MBSA.

I have set group policy so that the clients talk to an internal WSUS server, 
but have also set the Configure Automatic Updates to Disabled in the GPO. 
The clients are not reporting into the WSUS application.  Does the Configure 
Automatic Updates need to be on for them to report to the WSUS server?

Remember I do not want to patch with WSUS, I only want to use it for 
auditing. 

 Yes. Configure Automatic Updates must be enabled. Otherwise the client 
understand that there's no need to report anything to the update server.

 You can choose the option on these GPO to "Not Configured", meaning
that 
each client will decide what to do with the new updates available or just 
"Notify for download and notify for install", that will not download
neither 
install any updates on the clients. Both of the options will leave the 
report on the server that will help you on the audit.

 Hope it helps

 Cheers!

-- 
augusto alvarez | it pro | southworks
http://staff.southworks.net/aalvarez

"MarkB" <mbeck@wi.rr.com> wrote in message 
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> We have a WSUS installation that we only want to use for auditing puposes 
> in combination with MBSA.
>
> I have set group policy so that the clients talk to an internal WSUS 
> server, but have also set the Configure Automatic Updates to Disabled in 
> the GPO. The clients are not reporting into the WSUS application.  Does 
> the Configure Automatic Updates need to be on for them to report to the 
> WSUS server?
>
> Remember I do not want to patch with WSUS, I only want to use it for 
> auditing.
>