Re: WSUS 2.0 - 3.0 Migration (New Server) Gus <vines77[ at ]gmail.com> 5/23/2007 4:55:14 PM On May 23, 11:26 am, Mike_STLCC <MikeST...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Trying to bounce a question off you guys in something Im trying to plan out. > > With the release of WSUS 3.0, we are looking to deploy that to a new server > that we will be putting into place here in a month or two. > > Is there a way to migrate approvals from one database (WSUS 2.0) to a new > server database (WSUS 3.0) > > Also, a detail to add, I believe we were a bit foolish in planning, but our > clients are all set forhttp://hostnameinstead of using IPs. So the new > server will have a different hostname, so this could be quite a big task to > change over all of our clients to point to a new name or IP. > > Anyone have any suggestions in this migration? I can't say how big your deployment is but it seems you are not using AD Group Policy to assign the WSUS parms to the clients. As for the approvals, I just stood up a new WSUS installation for one of our companies last week and for a two WSUS server install providing service to 2300 clients the whole thing took me three hours. I really would not worry about existing approvals unless you have a very intricate level of certian computers that can not receive certian updates. Group Policy is your friend.