The third of WSUS series: WSUS configuration

We installed the WSUS role in the previous section, and in this section we'll talk about how to configure it.

Open Server Manager, click tools, and select Windows Server Update Service

This interface remains the default. Click next.

Whether or not to join the update and improvement plan, the next step

Choose to synchronize from Microsoft updates, next

Because there is no proxy server deployed in this environment, we choose not to use the proxy server here, the next step

Click to start the connection and wait for a while

Next step

Select the update language needed for the update, and next

Select the products that need to be updated, next

Define the categories of updates that need to be downloaded, which can be selected according to your environment. Next step

Configure the synchronization schedule, which remains the default here. Next step

Check to start the initial synchronization and click finish

You can see the status of synchronization in the WSUS console.

In all the computer options in the console, you can view the update status of the computer

In the options, we can redefine the product and classification, update the language, automatic approval and other functions

This is basically the end of the configuration of WSUS. In the next section, we will talk about how to configure Group Policy to send updates.