Setting up IIS to act as an Update Manager repository

The following KB article describes how to set up IIS to provide the patches downloaded by the Update Manager Download Server (UMDS) to the Update Manager server.

KB 1019288

I'd like to add some additional information to help with this.

1. The configuration of Update Manager means that you have to either host the downloaded patches locally to the UM server (i.e. plug in a drive with them on, or copy to the servers drive), or host them on a web server that is accessible by the UM server.
2. After the patches have been downloaded, they can be hosted on the UMDS server running IIS, and therefore you don't need to export the downloads anywhere saving on disk space & manual activities.
3. When you follow the KB article, make sure you copy version.txt and version1.txt to the root of the patch folder from the downloaded patches folder.
4. The KB article says copy the downloaded patches to the Document Root folder. Even better than this would be simply to set up UMDS to download directly to this folder, and then you don't need to worry about file copies.

To make sure that the IIS server is working, type using IE on the VM machines to connect to the following address:

http://umds_server_name/patch_store/version.txt

you should see something like:

"Created with VMware Update Manager Download service 4.1.0"