Push updates through wsus

Privacy policy. Looking for consumer information? It provides a single hub for Windows updates within an organization. WSUS provides additional control over Windows Update for Business but does not provide all the scheduling options and deployment flexibility that Microsoft Endpoint Manager provides.

From there, updates are periodically downloaded to the WSUS server and managed, approved, and deployed through the WSUS administration console or Group Policy, streamlining enterprise update management. This means you might not see KB and KB as installed updates since they might have been installed with a rollup. However, if you need either of these updates, we recommend installing a Security Monthly Quality Rollup released after October since they contain an additional WSUS update to decrease memory utilization on WSUS's clientwebservice.

If you have synced either of these updates prior to the security monthly quality rollup, you can experience problems. WSUS is highly scalable and configurable for organizations of any size or site layout. Doing so forces the affected clients to contact the WSUS server so that it can manage them.

The following process describes how to specify these settings and deploy them to all devices in the domain. This is not a requirement; you can target these settings to any security group by using Security Filtering or a specific OU.

Right-click the Configure Automatic Updates setting, and then click Edit. Under Options , from the Configure automatic updating list, select 3 - Auto download and notify for install , and then click OK.

Use Regedit. There are three other settings for automatic update download and installation dates and times. This is simply the option this example uses. For more examples of how to control automatic updates and other related policies, see Configure Automatic Updates by Using Group Policy. Right-click the Specify intranet Microsoft update service location setting, and then select Edit.

In the Specify intranet Microsoft update service location dialog box, select Enable. In your environment, be sure to use the server name and port number for your WSUS instance. The other options are 80 and ; no other ports are supported. As Windows clients refresh their computer policies the default Group Policy refresh setting is 90 minutes and when a computer restarts , computers start to appear in WSUS.

Now that clients are communicating with the WSUS server, create the computer groups that align with your deployment rings. The following procedures use the groups from Table 1 in Build deployment rings for Windows client updates as examples.

You can use computer groups to target a subset of devices that have specific quality and feature updates. These groups represent your deployment rings, as controlled by WSUS. Now that the groups have been created, add the computers to the computer groups that align with the desired deployment rings. Adding computers to computer groups in the WSUS Administration Console is simple, but it could take much longer than managing membership through Group Policy, especially if you have many computers to add.

In this example, you add computers to computer groups in two different ways: by manually assigning unassigned computers and by searching for multiple computers.

From there, you can use the following procedure to add computers to their correct groups. In the All Updates section, click Updates needed by computers. In the list of updates, select the updates that you want to approve for installation in your test computer group.

Right-click the selection, and then click Approve. In the console tree, right-click the Updates section and select Import Updates. Right-click the feature update you want to deploy, and then click Approve. There are five tasks that should be completed to allow WSUS to synchronize for the first time. Schedule a time for WSUS to synchronize or perform a manual synchroniza- tion. Tell WSUS where to store updates. Configure WSUS to download updates in the correct language. Click the server name.

Locate the version number under "Overview, Connection, Server Version. Verify your GPO is applying properly and is pointing to the correct server by running this command on one of your clients.

Start the process with WSUS 3. Apply this update. The Options window opens. In Options , click Automatic Approvals. The Automatic Approvals dialog opens. In Update Rules , click New Rule. The add Rule dialog opens. In add Rule , in Step 1: select Properties , select any single option, or combination of options from the following:.

In Step 2: edit the properties , click each of the options listed, and then select the appropriate options for each. In Step 3: Specify a name , type a name for your rule, and then click OK. On the Reports page, click the Update Status Summary report. The Updates Report window appears.

If you want to filter the list of updates, select the criteria that you want to use, for example, Include updates in these classifications , and then click Run Report. You will see the Updates Report pane. You can check the status of individual updates by selecting the update in the left section of the pane.

The last section of the report pane shows the status summary of the update.