Windows Server Update Services install time?

[pollardhimself]

How long WSUS take to install? It's installing on a server 2008 r2 with dual xeon 5540 and 16gb of ram with 15k iscsi hardrives in raid 1. Its been installing for over 2 hours nothing says its locked up

 

[xSauronx]

it should take less than 30 minutes to run the actual install. probably less than 15. i can install the service in a vm on a desktop in that time.

now, downloading whatever your selected updates are will depend on what you select and the kind of bandwidth you have, and then managing those and approving them will make you kill yourself...or half ass it, its annoying. wsus is evil.

 

[pollardhimself]

took awhile but the wizard finally came up... i might have just missed it and it got behind the install window

 

[xSauronx]

that seems more likely
installing it never was an issue...but honest to god managing it is a pain in the ass. are you just doing this to fiddle with it at home or in a lab or something?

if so, i strongly suggest just downloading one sub category of products, and one category of updates (like roll ups or service packs) for the sake of testing.

 

[RebateMonger]

....and then managing those and approving them will make you kill yourself...or half ass it, its annoying. wsus is evil.

LOL. Yeah, for a small company, it's a lot of work to follow all the updates to know what you do and don't want the client PCs to install. If you don't want to do that, it's probably better to just let the desktop PCs take care of themselves.

 

[xSauronx]

LOL. Yeah, for a small company, it's a lot of work to follow all the updates to know what you do and don't want the client PCs to install. If you don't want to do that, it's probably better to just let the desktop PCs take care of themselves.

im a work-study assistant to the admin at school and he asked me to set it up...i did.

"oh well....lets download (pretty much everything for everything)" he says, neither of us having any idea what it would end up downloading (About 90gb of data)

so i did...and i approved all sorts of shit. then WSUS broke with a windows update...and despite following the technet articles and a lot of googling, i couldnt fix it.

so i reinstalled...and just selected roll ups and service packs.

ive got to have it set up for a final lab project im doing and its being a complete bitch to even get working properly.

 

[stlcardinals]

WSUS is a good product, if you get it setup properly. SUS was the nasty one.

I have at least 3 groups of clients that i use, Test Group, Servers, Client.

I then setup up more views for the different products, one for each OS we have and Office.

Approve the updates when they come in for your Test Group, wait however long you want for your test period, and then approve them for the rest of your groups.

 

[Genx87]

Never had much of a problem with WSUS management. I categorize into servers and workstations. Then break them down by OS. If I have other sites I will also categorize them by site. Then testing groups for each.

 

[rasczak]

I like the WSUS. It's a neat product. Just remember to install this first if you ever have to deploy a a WSUS and a Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager on the same box.

 

[xSauronx]

WSUS is a good product, if you get it setup properly. SUS was the nasty one.

I have at least 3 groups of clients that i use, Test Group, Servers, Client.

I then setup up more views for the different products, one for each OS we have and Office.

Approve the updates when they come in for your Test Group, wait however long you want for your test period, and then approve them for the rest of your groups.

its definitely a good idea, but its been flaky for me :-/