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Introduction

In case that you have WSUS server separated from the Internet, you can’t get updates directly. Microsoft has provided a solution by setting up another WSUS server which can connect and update from the Internet. Next, download updates from the Internet to this server and then export updates and metadata to files and copy (may be via backup tape) to the WSUS server which is on the disconnected network.

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After 4 parts have passed, you have finished basic configuration on WSUS server. Next, you need to configure client computers to contact the WSUS server to get some updates. The best way is to configure from the domain group policy so that you only configure once. Then, the policy will be apply to all clients in the domain but this approach requires you to have an active directory in domain. In this post, I’ll show how to configure clients using group policy to get updates from the WSUS server.
Note: You can also configure clients that in a non-active directory, too. But I won’t cover in this article.

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Introduction

There is a built-in command on Windows XP and Windows 2003 which can gather system configuration information to display in command-line mode. This command works on Windows only. With this command, you can get System Information on both local or remote computer so you don’t have to login or remote desktop to the remote computer.

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This post is continued from Getting started with Microsoft Cluster Service, Part VI: Create a MSSQL server cluster (1).

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Introduction

Well, 5 parts have passed and now you should familiar with MSCS. This part, you’ll learn how to create another clustering service which is an important service that support clustering by design. It is Microsoft SQL Server. To setup MS SQL Server clustering, you’ll need to own a license of an enterprise edition of MS SQL Server. Next, I’ll show how to setup Microsoft SQL Server 2005 cluster. Like the previous part, I decide to separate this part into 2 posts because it’s a quite long part.

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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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