To save space I have provided a screenshot of the tasks.
The important tabs to pay attention to are Actions and CommonUnder Actions, we create 4 tasks. Open the GPO and navigate to ‘Computer Configuration - Preferences - Control Panel Settings - Scheduled Tasks’. Go to the ‘Group Policy Management’ screen and create a new GPO for the ‘Desktops’ and ‘Laptops’ OUs. How you want to configure Ninite is complete up to you – there are a bunch of command line switches you should probably familiarise yourself with before you begin. From this perspective it makes more sense to use a local download cache rather than have all machines connect to the net to download their set-up files consuming a lot of bandwidth and time. On the other hand, the workstations are fixed in the LAN via 100Mb/1Gb LAN links. I’m happy with that as more times than not, they won’t be consuming the capacity of our internet connection for the downloads they’d be using their own home wireless or other access point. Even if they were connected to the local network from outside, the connection would be too slow to retrieve the cached downloads from the LAN so we have gone for the option of no download caching for laptops – this means that each and every laptop will download their updates directly from the internet. For my organisation, employees are on customer site a lot or work from home where they may or may not be connected to the local network via a VPN connection. You may be asking your self why you’d want to mix the two? Why not use caching for both or not at all? Well, the answer to those questions is it really depends on how your network is set-up. 
In our environment, I have set-up Desktops with a cache and laptops without a cache. So there are two ways to go about this – one with a cache and one without. Ninite Pro still checks for new versions of applications and downloads them if they are not already in the cache. Ninite Pro automatically saves and reuses downloads in a NiniteDownloads folder it creates in the same directory as the Ninite. The official definition of cached downloads is: Now, there are a number of configurations you can set Ninite up with – the two I think merit a discussion is the /cachepath and /nocache switches. In my organisation, we have an OU (Organisational Unit) for Desktops and Laptops.
A Windows Server 2008 (R2) domain controller. What set-up this article covers (will almost certainly work with different set-ups) In this brief guide I will show you how to set up Ninite to automatically update, install and remove applications on Workstations and Laptops on a Windows active directory domain.
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