Windows Server 2022: Install, Configure, and Deploy Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

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In this video I show you how to install, configure, and deploy Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on a Windows Server 2022 Server.

In this guide, I cover:
-Server Manager
--Windows Server Update Services Role Installation

-WSUS Considerations and Requirements
--WID (Windows Internal Database)
--SQL Express
--GPO Group Policy Objects
--WSUS Maintenance
--Upstream and Downstream WSUS Servers
--Bandwidth Optimization

-WSUS Usage and Platform
--WSUS Infrastructure Design
--WSUS Synchronization Schedule
--WSUS Language, Products, and Classifications selections
--WSUS MMC Overview
--"gpupdate /force" usage
--WSUS Update Approval
--WSUS Reporting

This video is part of a multi-video playlist containing howto's on deploying various technologies with Microsoft Windows Server 2022.

Hardware/Software used in this demonstration
-VMware vSphere
-HPE DL360p Gen8 Server
-Microsoft Windows Server 2022
-pfSense Firewall

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[ajikps]

Thanks for this video. This really helped in setting up WSUS in my lab.

[donaldpero]

Hey man. I know these videos take time. Thank you for the post. I had a couple random questions since I am migrating my WSUS to a new VM and its been forever since I installed the service. Thank you for laying out the whole process. I appreciate it.

[hamzapuris]

Great tutorial, easy to follow and understand! Keep up the good work.

[rohank]

Thankyou for making this elaborately explained long video on the WSUS topic. Its much better than all the short videos out there on the subject.

[Pakaerin]

Thank you so very much for making these videos. Finally someone who explains process's well and I can understand the person speaking. Very helpful.

[josed]

Thank you for creating this content. This helps a lot!

[tonyhall]

Great video. Just for reference, the WSUS changed to "Configuration successfully completed" around 13:00.

[DargoTech]

Tech support specialist here; amazing video! Will be using this to implement WSUS at work!

[ahmadkamel]

you are very good thanks for this tutorial.

[scynk]

Great tutorial! Thank you very much. It was super clear and straightforward even for junior admins like me, who are installing the WSUS for the first time. I like your comments about two WSUS in A-vpn-B or about what yours servers should doing about 3 am :) I'm first time on this channel, so you definitely encourage me to check your others videos ;)

[johnsonnejo]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks for investing your time in creating this educative piece of work. My question quickly is this: how do you exempt the domain controller from automatically installing the updates as you mentioned that it is not safe to allow the server to run updates automatically? I noticed in this video, that you approved updates for the domain controller.

[Mr_Shtcoin]

I prefer WSUS to SCCM when it comes to patching servers. WSUS old school but the best

[neromeroc]

Hi. How uninstalling Windows Server 2022 as a Virtual Machine is done?

[coldworld_trini]

This is a great video. thank you. Can you please assist with a question? I would like to know, for example, if in error you approve a Server 2016 update and deploy it to Server 2019 group in error, would this update be attempted to install on these 2019 servers? Also is there a way to schedule restarts via WSUS, because I would not like the servers to restart randomly after the updates are installed.

[loparever]

Hi! Thanks for the video! One question. When you update all your computers using WSUS your main panel is telling you that there are no pending updates. Seems okay. But then, on the top of the panel I noticed "2151 security updates are waiting for approval", "950 critical updates..." and so on. About what approval is it talking about? As we saw on you video, your virtual machines didn't want new upgrades at all.

[cryptochristian]

Good video! I have configured and set up WSUS and it is working except for home users connecting via VPN. When I look at the computer in WSUS it shows the IP address of our firewall instead of the computer. If I ping the computer from the WSUS server it resolves the correct IP. So the WSUS server knows the correct IP of the computer. It's just that WSUS itself doesn't know the correct IP. I also can ping the server from the computer. The VPN computers are also not reporting to WSUS and I'm assuming that it is because of the IP issue. Any thoughts? Thanks!

[aolish]

I had recently bought the "HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2" and would like to run Windows Server 2022 Essentials, however MS no longer provides the iso for this and I was wondering if anyone knows how to obtain this? What makes this worse is the Microserver that I have does NOT come with an optical drive. Any help is appreciated.

[andersonanael]

A help, I have Windows server 2022 with 5 remote RDP users, in some situations where when logging on the black screen, without any action. In the client I already disabled the bitmap, and one detail, this black screen has already happened when I try to log in with the user administrator. Has anyone ever experienced this? Thanks

[satyakirti]

Can we deploy the updates to Byos laptops as well, those are having the Windows 10/11 home editions through WSUS?

[himanshudwivedi]

I have configured WSUS and it is working perfectly. But I have an issue with it as soon as I click check for updates, it automatically downloads and installs the update and restarts the system. Same thing was also seen at the time 49:50 of this video. How to get rid of auto install and restarts