From: Brian W. Spolarich (bspolarichnephrostherapeutics.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 13:31:25 CDT

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Thane Walkup wrote:
> One VERY good reason not to run SP3 is possible HIPAA and 21CFR11
> regulation issues - since the license for SP3 technically gives
> Microsoft unfettered access to your PC, any company under those
> regulations could be in violation of those regulations.
>
> This affects just about any medical facility.

  One can configure the SUS client to point at an internal SUS server via Active Directory GPOs. I suspect that if you point it at a non-functional URL the auto-update component will essentially be disabled, and it may be possible to disable it completely via GPO (haven't looked).

  -bws

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