WSUS Opinion ?

knowlesy

knowlesy

knowlesy

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Right Im contemplating installing wsus onto a small company of 30 server well call it "CompanyA", as they only have a pathetic internet connection, and well it would hopefully lighten the load on it, but I have heard very little about wsus and what I have heard is it can be demanding on the server (that was ages ago and I haven't read much user opinion on it other than stated) So I want your opinion on it and which version as Im reading its just gone to 3.0. I just want to know whether its really worth it although even if its not (Id really still like to unless it will hammer the server Im running pfmon to check server usage atm) and size usage and ease of use etc ....

they have 20gig spare currently on one of the hdds and I imagine it wont go past 4 or 5 gig ?

CompanyA has got a 2003 r2 server
2.6 xeon
2 gig of ye old ram


so any help with this would be much appreciated ocuk'ers
 
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i was thinking more critical updates service packs etc... they are mainly xp machines with 2 vista ... would it be possible to set it up just for service packs and critical updates to the wsus server and the internet for drivers and optional but force them to update it regardless (I assume that will be a group policy) but can it handle it
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Indeed. Oh and DON'T select driver updates. Not only will it take up loads of disk space but it'll also dump a load of records in the SQL DB which means queries take so much longer.
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thats what i was wanting the machines themselves to download direcctly from the internet rarther than overload the wsus .... is it possible or is that a nice ickle pipe dream #? ?
 
oh i know but it was a for instance I ment, eg optional such as media player and terminal services 6.0 :)


thanks guys Ill keep it to the minimum
 
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