Windows Server Update Services
Software updates are just a fact of life. Every administrator has to deal with them regularly – whether it's regular updates on your personal operating system, enterprise software that has software releases, or even updating the maps in your automobile's satellite navigation system.
When you have even two or three computers in your office, you'll also know some of the pain of managing Windows Updates for the desktop version of Windows such as Windows 10. Throw in a few servers and you're either very busy once a month doing updates and restarts, or you're never patching at all.
Windows has long provided a tool called Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), which can be used to help alleviate some of that pain, and that's what we're going to take a look at in this recipe. WSUS is generally installed in each physical location where you have computers or servers, and it acts as a go-between between your computers...