Just wondering what the consensus was on those who maintain the windows update system for their corporate network. We’ve had WSUS up and running for around a year, installing all the options except for drivers, but I’m increasingly finding it to be a royal PITA. Over the last few months we’ve had a number of PC’s which have developed issues for no apparent reason, mainly within Microsoft Office – slowness/crashing/unable to print etc, and also within XP itself, again mainly poor performance issues. Like today for example, everything was working fine last week, but a few users have come into today, and noticed that there OS is now performing sluggishly, and another user who is now unable to print emails in Outlook without it crashing. After some suggestions really on how others go about maintaining their windows updates and whether others are experiencing these issues as commonly.
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Sure, things go sluggish. But is it to do with WSUS? No idea. Increasingly we find we need to up machines to 1gb of ram to cope with the newer Microsoft updates. This seems to solve the problems.
Anyway - what's the alternative to WSUS? You could just end up with unpatched machines.
Anyway - what's the alternative to WSUS? You could just end up with unpatched machines.
Depending on the size of your network.....
Small Site - WSUS is perfect, as brainchylde stated anything lower than 1GB will struggle these days.
Medium Site - SMS can perform patch distribution.
Large Site - SCCM, huge product looking at around 5000 clients +
Small Site - WSUS is perfect, as brainchylde stated anything lower than 1GB will struggle these days.
Medium Site - SMS can perform patch distribution.
Large Site - SCCM, huge product looking at around 5000 clients +
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I should point out - we also have SCCM but we do not use it for patch distribution. However, we do use it for OS Deployment - which could be handy for you if you find machines slowing up constantly (You could re-image nightly, if you really wanted)
They are effectively the same, so should be no difference where/when you use them
SCCM replaced SMS. Loads of places run it on less than 5000 clients!
I used SMS ITMU for patch distribution, moving over to SCCM 'Software Updates' when we upgraded, works well.