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Managing Windows Update Services

This chapter covers the following recipes:

  • Installing Windows Server Update Services
  • Configuring WSUS Update Synchronization
  • Configuring the Windows Update Client
  • Creating Computer Target Groups
  • Configuring WSUS Automatic Approvals
  • Managing WSUS Updates

Introduction

Keeping your client and server systems updated with patches and updates is an important task undertaken by Windows administrators. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a feature of Windows Server 2019 that enables you to manage the download and distribution of updates to your organization’s computers.

In addition to updating Windows, WSUS enables you to manage patches and updates for various Microsoft software products. Thus, an update you ...

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