WSUS Opinion ?

WSUS is OK... for a free product, it does what it says on the tin. There are much better applications out there, but unless you're prepared to spend some money then it's an acceptable solution. I don't like the way that Microsoft went from WSUS 2 being web-based to WSUS 3 being an MMC snap-in, but that's just personal preference. Oh, and the built-in reporting sucks... we write our own reports instead.

Are you planning on using SQL Server or just MSDE? If you were thinking of using SQL Server, were you planning on installing it locally or remotely? If it's local, then factor this into your disk requirement. Also, think about backing up your database - are you going to store the backups locally (and then backup the server) or just store the database backups remotely? Again, if local, then factor this in too.

Even just for the WSUSContent directory I'd say you'll run out of space very quickly, as others have already pointed out.
 
Don't use WSUS as such anymore, using SCCM to do it all (which uses WSUS).

Only downloads the updates you want/need, my update folder is under 4 gig in total :)

Of course WSUS is free though :p
 
Errr, you don't have to store the updates locally although it does speed things up. Just stagger the clients but putting them in different waves but get them to download through the WSUS server instead of from it.

simples
 
Yeah but then you replicate the bandwidth required for downloading over the internet. The whole point of WSUS is a local update repository to negate the need for clients to get them from Microsoft directly!
 
Incase you attempt to do caching with a proxy, it's more hassle than it is worth :D

I wanted to do it for updating systems who were not part of a domain as configuring WSUS on a workstation PC and getting it to do WSUS updates does not work as seamlessly as I would hope!
 
tbz_ck said:
Yeah but then you replicate the bandwidth required for downloading over the internet. The whole point of WSUS is a local update repository to negate the need for clients to get them from Microsoft directly!
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Not used WSUS in ages, but can't you just tell it to download and store the updates that you need and not bother with the rest?
 
Ev0 said:
Not used WSUS in ages, but can't you just tell it to download and store the updates that you need and not bother with the rest?
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Yes, but you would have to go through the updates and decline them before the next sync pulls them down. I've never had the patience to do that, I just aprove all of the updates for the products and catagories I need. Once you do the initial sync it's not so bad anyway.
 
Saundie said:
Yes, but you would have to go through the updates and decline them before the next sync pulls them down. I've never had the patience to do that, I just aprove all of the updates for the products and catagories I need. Once you do the initial sync it's not so bad anyway.
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ahh right, kind of remember now.

I only have the ones that are applicable and are not superceeded or expired.

Tidy things up once in a while and remove any old ones that are no longer needed.

One of my update searches in SCCM tells me which patches are required but not deployed/downloaded, if anything pops up in there I just grab it and include it in the appropriate update deployment.
 
I use WSUS at work and at the moment our data store is close to 50GB, we do not have drivers selected as that is a death wish. In terms of machine spec we have it running in a VM with other services running on the same box, 2 vcpu and 1gb of ram, works fine.

I would highly recommend wsus to deploy updates than using windows update in a corporate environment.
 
Euphoria said:
I use WSUS at work and at the moment our data store is close to 50GB, we do not have drivers selected as that is a death wish. In terms of machine spec we have it running in a VM with other services running on the same box, 2 vcpu and 1gb of ram, works fine.

I would highly recommend wsus to deploy updates than using windows update in a corporate environment.
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You must have a fairly substantial corporate environment to warrant a 2 vcpu box?

In reply to 'knowlesy', my current WSUS box has about 19GB of data but I try and keep only the necessary windows XP & vista updates. I think you'll need to monitor the server if you're only allocating 20GB.
 
Strange.
Our WSUS is in a VM with 40Gb space, and the storage hasnt gone above 5gb, and thats with drivers selected...having said that though, its playing silly at the moment and doesnt quite work as expected. lol.
 
26GB here on Wsus, comprising of:

Exch 2007 updates, Office 2003/07, Windows 7, explorer 8 dynamics, Windows Svr 2003, 2003r2, 2008, Wsus, Vista & XP updates.

Classifications = Critical updates, Definition udpates, Security updates and Service packs.

Working very well, though I had some configuration problems on the Group policy side, in terms of machines rebooting at inopportune times, that was sorted though.
 
One of my big clients has a WSUS of 36gb which pretty much ate up all the hdd space but...

Code: 
"wsusdebugtool.exe /tool:purgeunneededfiles"
= lifesaver

Cleared up 14gb of declined/not required updates! :cool:
 
ethos said:
2 second google:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kb...Tips/Admin/DeployWSUSUpdatestoaWorkgroup.html

http://msmvps.com/blogs/athif/archive/2005/09/14/Manually_Configure_WUA.aspx
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Is the "normal" Windows Update broken when these registry updates are applied?

I would like to use WSUS to prep computers before they go off site, but would then like the computers to use Windows Update in the standard way when out of the office.

I am thinking I would need a second reg file to undo the first? Has anyone else done this?


ICE
 
You will just need a reg file to point them back at the internet side of windows updates instead of the internal wsus.
 
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