WUProxy Windows Vista
Configuring Windows Vista for the use of WUProxy
Note: You don't need to install the latest Windows Update agent, it will automatically be installed.
- Gather the certificate of the proxy which can be found in the folder iexpress_installer, itself located in the folder certs which is at the root of the proxy. NOTE: You can jump to step 10 if you plan instead to use wupdcerts_installer.exe.
- You need to run MMC.
- Inside of MMC, do Console and Add/Remove Snap-In
- Select Certificates and press Add.
- Check Computer account and then leave all the setting as default.
- Once the Snap-In is opened, go to the tree, expand Certificates (local computer), then Trusted Root Certification Authorities.
- You can right click on it, and press Import, choose one of the certificates.
- Press next, and be sure to leave unchecked Automatically select certificate store.
- Once it is done, ensure that your certificate appear.
- You now need to setup proxy settings. Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools and Internet Options.
- Choose tab Connections and then LAN settings.
- Check Use a proxy server.
- Go to the Advanced proxy settings, and fill the blanks for HTTP and HTTPS (the port used by the Proxy, if unchanged, is 8087, for the IP, use the IP which hosts the proxy)
- Don't forget to apply your changes.
- In an administrator command prompt, run the following (don't forget to change the IP):
netsh winhttp set proxy proxy-server="http=192.168.0.65:8087;https=192.168.0.65:8087"
- Once this is done, you can restart your computer.
Some screenshots of Windows Update under Windows Vista.
Windows Update is saying that you haven't searched for updates yet !
Windows Update is searching for updates !
Windows Update Agent is now up-to-date !
Windows Update has found a lot of updates !
Windows Update is downloading updates...
