5 votes

WSUS isn't worth it

Posted by tux4pres
Tags: tech, tech support

I just got off an hour of remote trouble shooting only to discover WSUS decided 10 at night was the best time to reboot every server for updates.

4 comments

  1. zendainc
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    This sounds like a problem with your WSUS configuration, not with WSUS itself. A poor tradesman blames his tools.

    This sounds like a problem with your WSUS configuration, not with WSUS itself.

    A poor tradesman blames his tools.

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    Amarok
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    Set up your domain policy to rigidly control the deployments for WSUS - or, if that's not you, send it to whoever your server/domain team is and tell them to handle it. Policy can lock down the...

    Set up your domain policy to rigidly control the deployments for WSUS - or, if that's not you, send it to whoever your server/domain team is and tell them to handle it. Policy can lock down the dates and times and update sources however you like. Frankly, I only ever had mine auto-download, never auto-update. I ran into enough issues with Microsoft's updates flaking things out over the years that I simply set aside one Saturday a month to do all the remote updating manually, so I could keep an eye on it.

    6 votes
    1. tux4pres
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      Thanks for this we already have group policy locked down so computers only update from WSUS. I wasn't aware of the controls for what time updates should be installed.

      Thanks for this we already have group policy locked down so computers only update from WSUS. I wasn't aware of the controls for what time updates should be installed.

  3. s4b3r6
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    I thought the point of WSUS was that you would have more fine-grained control of when updates would happen?

    I thought the point of WSUS was that you would have more fine-grained control of when updates would happen?

    1 vote