Describes the Windows Server Update Services 3. Microsoft Office 2010 For Full Version For Windows 8. SP2 Dynamic Installer for Server Manager. WSUS server, not even the WSUS server itself. Windows Server Update Service a. WSUS is Microsoft free tool they provide for deploying patches and updates. In my experience this tool is pretty much used by. Windows Server 2008 R2 Thread, How to Setup WSUS on 200320082008 R2 Server in Technical. Group Policy for WSUSWindows Server Update Service a. WSUS is Microsoft free tool they provide for deploying patches and updates. In my experience this tool is pretty much used by every organisation in the world that has more than a hand full of computers. WSUS is also a requirement for the Software Update option in SCCM 2. What I hope this post will teach you is how to use Group Policy in your environment to milk the absolute most out of your existing WSUS infrastructure. I am also going to assume that you are familiar with WSUS and already have it deployed in your organisationIs WSUS the right tool for your organisationHaving implement WSUS for an environment of over a combination of 1. I can truly say that this tool scales really well. I also believe that even if you have bought and implemented System Center Configuration Manager in your environment then you are probably still better off using WSUS for manage you updates for your Microsoft software. The reason why I still normally recommend that people using WSUS over SCCM is that the product overall is much easier to use and its just human nature for people to want to do the easier tool where possibleHowever there are a couple of reason why I think SCCM should still be used over WSUS and they are You require to wake computers using WOL for them to be patched out of hours. However there is a way to do something similar using Group Policy. You want to ensure that computers are only patched during a Maintenance Window however even this can be done using Group Policy and that these patches do not install if it will take longer than that window. The SCCM Software Update supports third party updates when used in conjunction with System Center Updates Publisher 2. This is very handy if you want to deploy third party updates from HP, Dell or Adobe yes Flash and Reader. But unfortunately even though SCCM SU feature is built on WSUS there is no way to import these third party updates directly into a standalone WSUS server. How To Remove Approved Updates From Wsus' title='How To Remove Approved Updates From Wsus' />WSUS Tips and Tricks. Below are a collecting of configuration recommendations and tips that help you get the most our of your WSUS infrastructure in your environment. Summary Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to automate basic administrative tasks on a WSUS server. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we. Esipuhe. Olen niss asioissa totaalinen amatri ja vain ilmeisesti liiasta vapaaajasta johtuen on tullut omaa harrastustani julkaistua tll tavalla. WSUS vs missing Check online for updates from Microsoft update issue. Can they still check for updates online independently of the WSUS serverThese are in no particular order of importance and you might chose to implement only some of these setting depending on your environment. Terminology In this post i will use the term client many times. When I make this reference note that I am talking about any client of the WSUS Server, which could mean a client is either a server or workstation. WSUS Computer Group Assignment. I am not able to get the upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators UpdateUpgrade v1703 on machines running v1607, neither via WSUS or by checking online for updates. One of the first things you should do once you have installed WSUS and performed the first sync is enabled the Group Policy computer group assignment. This allows the clients that connect to your WSUS server to be automatically configured in the correct targeting group when they connect to the WSUS server. The target group on the client is controlled using the Enable client side target group policy setting more on this later. If you dont enable this option you will quickly find that you need to manually categorise even new computer that reports into the WSUS server. O6rbROavcXU/Te3rJkRc0nI/AAAAAAAAC60/WUACplBtF8k/s1600/WSUS%20Server%20setup004.png' alt='How To Remove Approved Updates From Wsus' title='How To Remove Approved Updates From Wsus' />This is fine if you only have few computers but once you star managing many hundreds or thousands of computers this quickly becomes impractical. DNS Alias for WSUS Server. One of the options you can set using Group Policy is called Specify intranet Microsoft update service location which allows you to specify the WSUS Server name. Even thought this setting can be controlled via Group Policy and thus can be changed in about 2 hours, I still strongly recommend that you create a DNS Alias. Creating a DNS alias for your WSUS Server will give you another way to easily migrate your clients to a new WSUS server without the need to keep a legacy alias of your old server name after you move to a new WSUS server. Default Top Level GPOAnother great thing about WSUS is that the Automatic Update agent, which is the software the client uses to connect to the server, is included out of the box in every single copy of Windows Since XP. Citizen Alarm Chronograph Manual on this page. This means that there is no additional software agents that need to be deployed to the computers to get starting using WSUS. This being the case You can set a policy at the very top level of your domain using the Specify intranet Microsoft update service location setting to configure every computer on your domain to point to the WSUS servers. I find that once an organisation does this they are amazed how this discovers a number of hiding computers on their network that have never been patched. In conjunction with this setting I would also recommend that you set the Configure Automatic Updates to option 2 so that by default you are NOT inadvertently pushing out any patches to any computers. Doing this this is more a discovery process so that you can at least be aware of any un patched computers on then network that you can then appropriately remediate An added side benefit doing this is you also get an accurate picture as to home real computers are actually on your network. Hierarchical Naming of Target Groups. Back in the day of WSUS v. Even though WSUS v. I suspect that it is due to the ability for a WSUS v. WSUS v. 2 server during a migration of WSUS. That being the case, you need to deploy you target group naming strategy in a way to avoid need two target groups with the same nameHere I will tell you to go visit my Best Practice Active Directory Structure Guidelines Part 1 post where I talk about the number of ways you can build your OS structure. Now we will use the example Two Level Hybrid Resource Location see image below from the AD Structure Guideline for out WSUS target groups. You would use the following Target Group StructureYou might also notice in the above image I also have Terminal Servers and Servers at the top level of the WSUS Structure. Generally I recommend in most environments these are the only top three WSUS groups you will need. I will go into more detail on this further on in the Top level Patch Approval Groups section but for now just ignore the server and terminal server target groupsWhat you will find is that the OU design of your organisation will largely mirror your OU Structure. You might also notice that the names of the target groups are Workstations SITENAME and not just SITENAME. The Workstation prefix is required as you might also want to patch Servers in the same site and therefore due to the unique target group requirement you will need to have a Workstations Sydney and Servers Sydney group. Now also take a look at the Keep the GPOs name consistent with the OU names section in my Best Practice Group Policy Design Guidelines Part 2 post you can see how the WSUS Target Groups are also very consistent but not the same as the OUs that the computer are located. The advantage of doing this is that it makes it a lot easier to determine what OU a computer is a member of just by looking at the target group it has in the WSUS console. Here you can see an example of how the Group Policy Object would also be applied to support the OU Structure and WSUS Target Group Structure above. So now if you have actually read my other two AD and GP Best Practices blog posts you might actually be seeing the sheer genius of how these designs are related Yes I know I am modest.