WSUS 3.0 Patching Servers tgoddard 5/24/2007 1:19:00 PM How are people handling WSUS patching of Win2K3 servers - what's worked, what hasn't , and why?

RE: WSUS 3.0 Patching Servers d_man 5/24/2007 2:16:02 PM Right now we patch servers using SMS. Some servers can't be rebooted at the time the patch is rolled out. So I create a package that doesn't reboot. As I roll with WSUS3. I'm going to create a couple of groups in wsus for servers that reboot/don't reboot. Created a group in AD to add computer accounts that won't be rebooted. Created a gpo and configured "No auto restart for scheduled updates" enabled. We have a mix of serv 2k and serv2k3. Hope this helps. -d "tgoddard" wrote: [Quoted Text] > How are people handling WSUS patching of Win2K3 servers - what's worked, what > hasn't , and why?

Re: WSUS 3.0 Patching Servers DaveMills <DaveMills[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 5/26/2007 5:07:46 AM On Thu, 24 May 2007 07:16:02 -0700, d_man <dman[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Right now we patch servers using SMS. Some servers can't be rebooted at the >time the patch is rolled out. So I create a package that doesn't reboot. As >I roll with WSUS3. I'm going to create a couple of groups in wsus for >servers that reboot/don't reboot. Created a group in AD to add computer >accounts that won't be rebooted. Created a gpo and configured "No auto >restart for scheduled updates" enabled. We have a mix of serv 2k and >serv2k3. Hope this helps. -d > I suggest you do some testing on this plan as it will not work. If nobody is logged in the servers WILL REBOOT The best method for servers is to set WSUS option 3 - Download and notify. Then when an Admin logs in they can install the updates and reboot. >"tgoddard" wrote: > >> How are people handling WSUS patching of Win2K3 servers - what's worked, what >> hasn't , and why? -- Dave Mills There are 10 type of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.