MicroNugget: How to Integrate WSUS Updates

In this video, Greg Shields covers integrating WSUS updates into VMM 2012. Don't get caught up in the rat race of rebooting every machine every month to receive Microsoft's updates for its OSs. Instead, see how Greg keeps everything up to date in VMM 2012 automatically.

In the early days of Microsoft's Hyper-V, there were administrators who stayed opposed to the native hypervisor because of Microsoft's many frequent updates. The sizable monthly patches Microsoft is notorious for could mean running around to every machine that needs the patch and rebooting it manually.

Fortunately for us, the entire process of updating has gotten a lot easier, especially when you take Hyper-V and put it underneath Virtual Machine Manager 2012. Follow along as Greg integrates WSUS into VMM 2012.

Initiating the synchronization and finding the right security baselines is about as hard as it gets while you navigate the metadata within WSUS. Since VMM is cluster-aware, when you deploy updates, it'll handle all the management of the cluster resources for you. No more moving VMs around or evacuating by hand, thanks to WSUS' updating magic.

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