WSUS Maintenance
Direnc Onen - 07/02/2023
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Direnc Onen - 07/02/2023
Last updated
WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) is a Microsoft tool for managing the distribution of updates released through Microsoft Update to computers in a corporate environment. To keep the WSUS running smoothly and to optimize its performance, regular maintenance tasks must be performed. When Easy2Patch is used with WSUS and/or SCCM, these maintenance operations are also important for the health of 3rd party update processes with Easy2Patch. Some common WSUS maintenance tasks are:
Synchronization: WSUS must be configured to sync with Microsoft Update regularly to download the latest updates. This ensures that your WSUS server has the most current updates available. When new updates arrive, old updates are supersed and removed from WSUS.
Cleanup Wizard: The WSUS Cleanup Wizard helps remove unnecessary content from the WSUS database, including expired updates, unused updates, and old computers. Running this wizard periodically helps free up disk space and improve the overall performance of the WSUS server.
Rejected Updates: It is important to review and reject updates that are no longer necessary or applicable to your environment. This helps reduce the size of the update database and improves synchronization and reporting times.
Backup and Restore: Regularly backing up the WSUS server database is essential to protect against data loss. This allows you to restore the WSUS server to a previous state if necessary.
Monitoring: Monitoring the WSUS server is essential to ensure its health and performance. You can use monitoring tools or built-in WSUS reports to check for sync errors, server connection issues, and client compatibility.
Server Maintenance: Perform regular server maintenance tasks such as applying OS updates, monitoring disk space, and checking event logs for WSUS-related errors or warnings.
Testing and Validating Updates: It is good practice to test updates on a small set of representative systems before deploying them to client computers. This helps identify compatibility issues or issues that may be caused by updates. If SCCM is used in the environment, controls can be made by making a priority deployment to the collection to be created for testing. Computer group membership can be changed manually on WSUS or automatic group membership can be set with GPO. Deployments are made to this test group before they are sent to all systems.
WSUS Health Monitoring: Continuously monitor the health of the WSUS server by checking for issues such as failed services, database errors, or performance bottlenecks. This can be done through various monitoring tools or built-in WSUS health reports.
If too many update categories and products are selected on WSUS, WSUS starts to slow down. Maintenance operations cannot be completed because they will expire and cause irreversible WSUS operation problems. Since Easy2Patch works directly with WSUS, any problem that may occur in WSUS causes Microsoft and 3rd party updates not to be distributed to your systems.
