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When you have installed WSUS 3.0 SP1, the configuration wizard appears to let you configure WSUS for the first time. You can configure to synchronize updates from Microsoft Update directly or other WSUS server, specify proxy server for WSUS, determine which products you want to synchronize, determine which classification (critical updates, tools, drivers, service pack, etc.) of updates you want.

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After all the requirements have been installed successfully in the previous part, I’m going to install WSUS in this part. The updates will be stores on locally at C:\WSUS and I’ll keep information on Windows Internal Database which will be installed while installing WSUS. If you plan to keep lot of updates or service many client computers, I would recommend using Microsoft SQL Server for performance issue. For a web site for client computers to connect to this WSUS server, I’ll let WSUS create a new web site on port 8530 instead of port 80 which is a common port and may be expose security issue.

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In this part, I’ll show how to install software requirements for WSUS on Windows Server 2003.

Requirements

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Microsoft BizTalk server provides a predefined set of macros to help in create output filenames on File send handler. If you working with sending output as a file, you’ll find these macros are really useful that you don’t have to coding any statement to get these value. These macros can be found on MSDN library but I sometimes find it’s time consuming to search on MSDN every time I forget the macro. Therefore, I decide to quote the table from MSDN to this post instead.

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Introduction

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a Windows service that helps in distribution Microsoft’s updates to clients in network. It downloads updates from Microsoft Update and installs the updates to client computers in network so that each computer doesn’t need access to the Internet and download updates from Microsoft website itself. Hence, if you have a lot of computers that running Windows that require updates in your network, you can save a lot of bandwidth of the Internet connection. Also, WSUS enables centralized management. It has an administrative console that summarizes current updates available on the server and updated status of each client computer that connect to the WSUS server.

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