Tag Archives: WSUS

Integrate Windows Defender with WSUS and Windows Update

Integrate Windows Defender with WSUS and Windows Update

It’s important for Windows Defender to stay up to date so that new known variants of malware can be detected. This can be achieved if we integrate Windows Defender with WSUS and Windows update, which we’ll show you how to do here in Windows Server 2016.

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Configure update approvals and deployments in WSUS

Configure WSUS Update Approvals And Deployments

In this post we’re going to take a look at both manual and automatic update approvals in Microsoft’s Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Updates need to be first approved before they will be made available for download and installation by the client computers.

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Troubleshoot WSUS configuration and deployments

Troubleshoot WSUS configuration and deployments

This post will cover some basic methods to troubleshoot and fix common problems with Microsoft’s Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

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Manage updates using WSUS in Windows Server 2016

Manage Updates Using WSUS

This post will show you how to manage updates using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in Windows Server 2016. This will include viewing available updates and approving the updates to predefined computer groups.

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Install and configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

Install and configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

In this post we will cover how to install and configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in Microsoft’s Windows Server 2016.

WSUS can be used to automatically download Windows update files and store them locally. Other Windows servers in your network will then download the updates from the WSUS server rather than the Internet, saving you Internet bandwidth and speeding up the Windows update process.

With WSUS we can configure all of our servers to be automatically updated, ensuring that security updates are installed quickly from a central location. This will provide us with useful information such as reports advising which servers have or have not been patched with a specific update.

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Create computer groups for WSUS

Create WSUS Computer Groups

This post will cover how to create and manage computer groups in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for Windows Server 2016.

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