Creating Computer Target Groups

With the recipes so far in this chapter, you have set up a WSUS server and created a GPO to configure the Windows Update Client on your computers. The next step is to create target groups—the computers you plan to use when targeting WSUS updates.

In any organization, different groups of hosts can have other update requirements. Your Windows client hosts run software such as Microsoft Office that you do not normally see on a server.

Your mission-critical servers might require a separate testing and sign-off process for updates that you then approve for use. For efficient management of updates, you define target groups (for example, domain controllers (DCs), SQL servers, and so on) and then determine the computers in the target group.

In this recipe, you create a target group for domain servers, including SRV1 and SRV2.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on SRV1, with SRV1 and WSU1 online. You should have installed and configured...