{"id":277,"date":"2017-02-07T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2017-02-07T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:34:02","slug":"how-to-install-and-setup-wsus-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/how-to-install-and-setup-wsus-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install and setup WSUS for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Setting up WSUS:
\n<\/u><\/strong>(h\/t Boris)
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Open Server Manager, go to Tool and select Windows Server Update Service from the drop down
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When the window opens, expand the left pane tree to All Computers, right click on it and select Add Computer Group\u2026
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In the left pane, click on Options<\/strong>, then click on Computers
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Make sure the Use Group Policy<\/strong>\u2026 halo is select, click OK<\/strong> to close
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Close the windows, go back to Server Manager<\/strong>, go to Tools<\/strong> and select Active<\/strong> Directory<\/strong> Users<\/strong> and<\/strong> Groups<\/strong> from the drop down
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In AD expand the domain in the left pane and find the Computers<\/strong> group, then right click in the right pane, select New<\/strong> and Group\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the new window, type in the group name for the WSUS service, i.e. \u201cCritical Servers\u201d, then click OK<\/strong> to close
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Right click on the group just created and select Properties
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Go to the Members tab, click Add and find the computers you want to add to the group, click OK to close
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Close the windows, go back to Server Manager<\/strong>, go to Tools<\/strong> and select Group Policy Management<\/strong> from the drop down
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In the new window, expand the left tree pane to the Domains<\/strong>, right click on the domain and select Create a GPO in this domain, and Link it here\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the popup, end the new name for the GPO, i.e. \u201cWSUS Critical Server\u201d, click OK<\/strong> to close
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In the GPO, in the Scope<\/strong> tab, under Security<\/strong> Filter<\/strong>, click Add<\/strong> to add the group previously made in the AD
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In the left pane, right click on the GPO and click Edit<\/strong>
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A Group Policy Management Editor<\/strong> will open, expand the left pan tree to Computer Configuration\\Policies\\Administrative Templates\\Windows Components\\Windows Update<\/strong>, find Enable client-side targeting <\/strong>and double click on it
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Enable<\/strong> the policy, and under Options<\/strong> enter the name of the group made in AD, i.e. \u201cCritical Servers\u201d, and click OK <\/strong>to close
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Then double click on Specify intranet Microsoft update service location<\/strong>, Enable<\/strong> the policy, and under Options<\/strong> enter the address for the WSUS server and port, i.e. \u201chttp:\/\/*servername*:8530<\/a>\u201d for bother inputs and click OK <\/strong>to close
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Lastly double click on the Configure Automatic Updates<\/strong> policy, Enable<\/strong> it and under Options<\/strong> set the updating to option 4; 7 for install day; and midnight for install time, this will limit network traffic, interference, and restart downtime to a minimum, click OK <\/strong>to close
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Close the window to apply changes to the policy. Back in Group Policy Management<\/strong>, Right Click on the GPO and Enforce<\/strong> it
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Close Group<\/strong> Policy Management<\/strong>, go back to Windows Server Update Service. <\/strong>You will notice that after time that new computers which have been added to the domain will start to appear in the Service
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To force an update of clients into the Windows Server Update Service <\/strong>portal, run the following in a Command Prompt: wuauclt \/detectnow<\/strong>, and new computer should start populating
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Setting up WSUS: (h\/t Boris) Open Server Manager, go to Tool and select Windows Server Update Service from the drop down When the window opens, expand the left pane tree to All Computers, right click on it and select Add Continue reading How to install and setup WSUS for the first time<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[113,16],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsus","tag-setup","tag-wsus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}