WSUS Setup Guide

[johbreaking]

Has anyone got a beginners guide to setting up wsus? We have just taken over quite a large primary which has a mix of 7, 8 and 10 machines and they are getting hammered by windows updates over the network.

[sted]

pretty much find a server with loads of hdd space free (it can easily be 3-550gb depending on number of os's office versions etc) install the role (personally on 2012+ i tick the role let it add all the prerequisites then untick the wsus role and just install the prerequisites then repeat with just the wsus role as it seems to install 1st time then). follow the wizzard and then look at gpos most of it is pretty self explanatory

[NB9457]

It's really easy once you know how.

 

https://mizitechinfo.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/step-by-step-installing-configuring-wsus-in-server-2012-r2/

 

Plus Google is easy too

[jthompson]

For a new WSUS build, don't use auto-approve for everything, as you'll end up with an absolutely mahoosive db full of GBs and GBs of updates that aren't needed. I made that mistake and had to start over.

 

Perhaps hold off using auto-approval at all for the first month or so (auto-approve only critical and security, if anything), and only manually approve updates that show as needed by clients. The cleanup wizard will then be able to start removing updates that haven't been needed for 30+ days.