VIDEO: How To Install and Configure Windows Server Update Services on Server 2016
This video demonstrates how to install Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2016. We also quickly show the Group Policies required to have your office PC’s use the WSUS server as their source for updates.
How To Install & Configure Windows Server Update Services:
Minimum Server Hardware Specification For WSUS:
| Hardware | Low-end 500 or fewer clients | Typical 500–3,000 clients | High-end 3,000–20,000 clients, or rollup of 30,000 clients | Super high-end 10,000 clients, or rollup of 100,000 clients |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | 1 GHz | 1.5 GHz or faster | 3 GHz hyper threaded processor, x64 hardware | 3 GHz hyper threaded dual processor |
| Graphics card | 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp | 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp | 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp | 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp |
| RAM | 1 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| Page file | At least 1.5 times physical memory | At least 1.5 times physical memory | At least 1.5 times physical memory | At least 1.5 times physical memory |
| I/O subsystem | Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives | Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives | Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives | Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives |
| Network card | 10 MB | 100 MB | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Hard drive—system partition | 1 GB | 1 GB | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Hard drive—content storage | 20 GB | 30 GB | 30 GB | 30 GB |
| Hard drive—SQL Server installation | 2 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB |
GPO’s For Client PC’s:
To have the PC’s on your network use your new WSUS server you need to make a few simple registry entries which you can easily handle using the following Group Policy:
