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Entries from Realtime Community | Windows Server tagged with 'wsus'
WSUS 3.0 Officially Released!
It appears that Microsoft has finally released WSUS 3.0! After nearly a year in Beta and even more time as a Release Candidate, this update to the freeware Microsoft patching engine is ready for prime time. That's excellent news in...
Virtual Server Updates to be Available through WSUS
Very, very shortly software updates and patches for Microsoft Virtual Server should be downloadable and installable via WSUS. Excellent. With many administrators I know centralizing on the WSUS platform for all updates, this move is a boon for Virtual Server...
Hacking WSUS #5 of 5 -- The Holy Grail: A Remoteable "YOU PATCH NOW!" Script
So yesterday's script was great if you're sitting on the console of the server and you want that server to download, install, and reboot for patching. But, what if you want to sit in your lofty white Systems Administrator's tower...
Hacking WSUS #4 of 5 -- The "Big Red Button" or How to Patch When you want with WSUS
Most Windows administrators' biggest complaint about WSUS is its lack of an ability to patch on-demand, without having to wait for the Group Policy-scheduled time to arrive. Even in talking with the WSUS team, they have told me that they...
Hacking WSUS #3 of 5 -- Creating a MS Number to Knowledgebase Article Number Comparison Report
Ever felt the pain of comparing the patch number (the "MS0X-0XX Number") to the knowledgebase article number (the "Q Number") when you're trying to figure out which patches to push? WSUS lists patches by their knowledgebase article number. But, the...
Hacking WSUS #2 of 5 -- Create Missing Patches Report
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Hacking WSUS #1 of 5 -- Created Installed Patches Report
This week is Advanced Patch Management week here at Realtime Windows Server. Every day this week we're going to focus on ways to leverage the COM and VBScript exposure in WSUS to extend its capabilities into areas that most Windows...
Advanced Patch Management Week! What's Cool with WSUS 3.0 RC and Scripting WSUS 2.0
In this episode, we'll be discussing the new version of Windows Server Upgrade Services or WSUS, and what about it should interest you (and there's a lot). We'll talk about how WSUS 3.0 includes new features like multiple targeting groups,...
WSUS 3.0 at RC, but still missing some highly-demanded features...
WSUS 3.0 hit RC a couple of weeks ago, and this release is going to be leaps and bounds improved over previous versions. We eliminate the slow web interface in place of a new MMC-based one that uses the Microsoft...
SMB & Mid-Market Administrators Rejoice! MS System Center Essentials getting closer to RTM
In my travels as a consultant I get to see a lot of SMB and mid-market environments where administrators just don't have a handle on what's going on in their environment. There's no sense of configuration control and absolutely no...
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