During System Center Essentials 2010 installation, you must specify how to manage system updates and program updates that you download from Microsoft. You can choose from one of the following storage options:
- Updates stored on a local computer are
downloaded once and then delivered to the managed computers over
the network. For example, when stored locally, one update for 50
computers is downloaded once to the Essentials server and then
served 50 times to the managed computers. If Internet access is a
bottleneck in your network infrastructure, consider storing updates
locally.
- Updates stored on Microsoft Update are
downloaded each time a computer needs to be updated. Using the same
example, one update for 50 computers is downloaded 50 times, once
to each computer. Storing updates on Microsoft Update uses less
disk space on the local server.