WSUS 3.0 RTM

In case you haven't heard, Microsoft has released Windows Server Update Services 3.0. We've been using it since RC1 and I have really liked the product. This is not a review but a thumbs up from someone who has used the product for several months. Among the features that I really like:

1) A daily email status report of computers and updates (See screen shot below). No more logging into WSUS everyday to make sure computers are automatically updating!

2) WSUS administration is done through an MMC snap-in.

3) We now have fully customizable automatic approvals.

One problem I came across is, I use ports 80/443 and not the default 8530/8531 and when I upgraded, WSUS defaulted back to 8530. I had to go into IIS Admin and change the ports back to 80/443.

 

Status as of Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:00 PM (GMT)

This e-mail message summarizes the status of the Update Services Server named WSUS.

Computer Status

Computer Group Computers Needing Updates Computers with Errors Unassigned Computers 0 0 Checkin 1 0 Staff 6 0 Servers 9 0 All Computers 16 0

Updates Status

Critical and security updates approved: 953 Critical and security updates needed: 6 Critical and security updates with errors: 0 Non-critical and non-security updates approved: 1308 Non-critical and non-security updates needed: 4 Non-critical and non-security updates with errors: 0

Synchronization Status

Last synchronization: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:18 PM Last synchronization result: Succeeded Next synchronization: Automatic