Configuring Windows updates

To manage Windows updates for your servers, Microsoft has a well-known tool named Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). For your traditional and IaaS environments, WSUS provides the tools needed to deploy and update your servers as updates are released. Due to moving into the cloud world with Azure, Microsoft now has an Update Management solution as part of Azure Automation. Update Management allows you to manage your servers, both Windows and Linux, within your cloud and on-premises environments. An overview of WSUS was provided in Chapter 3, Server Infrastructure Management within the Using Windows Server Update Services subsection of the Understanding Windows Server management tools section.

Implementing Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

First, we will review WSUS and how to use it as a follow-up from installing the feature within Windows Server Core earlier in this chapter. Before we access the management console, we will need to run through...