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Microsoft Windows Server Update Services

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) enables information technology administrators to deploy the latest Microsoft product updates to computers that are running the Windows operating system. By using WSUS, administrators can fully manage the distribution of updates that are released through Microsoft Update to computers in their network. It's free.

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Running Google Chrome updates from a centralized location

We are trying to roll out Google Chrome as out enterprise browser. Does anyone know of a solution that allows for Google Chrome to be updated from a centralized location? For example, maybe through WSUS or any other ways of doing it? Any suggestions…
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How to verify if Windows Update location is properly configured from WSUS?

I was recently configuring a WSUS server. However I am not sure if I've set up correctly (WSUS isn't an everyday tool at the place where I work). I've been wondering, Is there a command (or a tool) in Windows 7 that can be executed on a client…
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Most wanted feature for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 4.0

Some blogs rumor that the next Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) would allow to host user-defined and even non-Microsoft packages. What is your wish list for WSUS 4.0?
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Centrally Managed WSUS, but Updates come from Internet

When looking at the common WSUS deployment options, I don't see an option where the updates are centrally managed for multiple WSUS servers, but both servers download the updates from Microsoft. Is this a deployment option?
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Edit Windows Update GPO Via Command Line

I am trying to find a way to edit the group policy for Windows Updates programmatically. I have a local WSUS server to which I want to point new installs of windows. Ideally, I just want to have a script I can run which does this, rather than going…
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How do I disable WSUS for a single server?

Scenario: A few Windows 2003 servers, part of our corporate network Corporate IT has set up a WSUS server. But it seems Corporate IT is unable to operate the WSUS server properly. On "my" servers, I get 'unable to download updates'-messages in the…
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How to reconnect clients to WSUS after 1809 causes problems after install

Doing some testing on our test environment with the 1809 update. This system is not Internet and only gets updates from WSUS. I have tried to stop the services and rename the SoftwareDistribution folder but that didn't help either. I have done the…
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Why are WSUS shared folders shared out to entire network?

I set up a Server 2012 R2 instance as a WSUS server and went through initial set up. But now, from another computer on LAN, when I type explore to the server via UNC path I see Wsuscontent and WSUSTemp shared out to the whole network. The odd thing…
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Do I really need WSUS and if I disable WSUS will the workstation automatically pickup windows updates?

When I setup SBS 2011 several years ago, it automatically setup WSUS. We have 6 workstations and the server in the office. WSUS is taking up too much server space and I find it frustrating to maintain. I have spent days trying to clean up old…
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How to automatically decline quality rollup updates in WSUS

As you probably know, it is now not possible to pick and choose specific updates to approve or decline in WSUS for older Windows operating systems. For servers, generally speaking there are now only two types: a roll up for the month's security…
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Deploying Windows 10 anniversary through WSUS

Can someone tell me how to get the Windows 10 anniversary update (build 1607) into WSUS correctly? I tried adding the upgrades classification and it pulled in a bunch of build 1607 packages. I approved "Feature update to Windows 10 Pro, version…
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Users are seeing Windows Update notification on Terminal Servers. How to stop it?

We have a 6-server TS farm running Server 2008 R2 and using a WSUS server to do updates. Group Policy for the farm has updates configured to automatically download and install as soon as they're approved, but automatic reboots are disabled. The…
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Issue installing IE11

I've been using WSUS to roll out IE11, there's a few stranglers that IE11 will not install and I've started looking into. Here's what I've done. Confirmed all prerequisite updates have been done. I'm using the x64 bit package of ie11 and only…
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Using get-wsuscomputer with -ComputerUpdateStatus

I have WSUS installed on a Server 2012R2 box. I am trying to use the Get-WsusComputer powershell command to get a list of computers with pending or failed updates. The documentation for the command seems to suggest that -ComputerUpdateStatus is…
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Can WSUS, which is integrated with SCCM, be used as an upstream server for the other replica WSUS server?

I have following situation: Production environment with SCCM and WSUS integrated so all software installs and patching is done via SCCM. Wsus server is windows 2012 and system center is 2012R2. Test environment which doesn't have internet…
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