Does SMS need the Automatic Updates Service to work?

Does SMS need the Automatic Updates Service to work?
No. SMS uses its own mechanism to deploy patches. SMS 2.0 with the SUS Feature Pack and SMS 2003 both have the ability to deploy security patches to computers without the Automatic Update Service.

This was first published in November 2003

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