wsus WSUS Choose Products

[G33kman]

Hey everyone I'm working on setting up WSUS today so that I can run the updates over the weekend since we're stuck on a slow internet connection.

I have attempted to setup WSUS before but always get stuck / confused when I get to the choose products section. 

 

There's a lot of different products that I can choose from that I'm not really sure apply to us. The main section is Windows 10 there are a lot of different things to choose from and I'm not sure on what's what...

 

Here's the OS's that we have.

 

SERVERS:

Dell PowerEdge T320

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (Primary DC)

Roles:

• Active Directory Domain Services
• App Server (Not 100% sure this is being used)
• DHCP Server
• DNS Server
• Files and Storage Services
• IIS 7
• Print Server

HP ProLiant ML350 G6

Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (Failover)

Roles:

• Active Directory Domain Services
• DNS Server
• File and Storage Services
• IIS 8.5

Desktops:

Custom Built

Windows 10 Pro x64

Office 365 (2016)

 

Thanks for your help. I attached a picture to show the exact section I'm talking about.

Ryan

[Electronics Wizardy]

You want to pick the products of your clients mainly, not the servers, so probably windows 7 and 10 and all the other products you use.

 

 

[G33kman]

Well I don't have any Windows 7 clients but as far as the Windows 10 clients go how do you know which products to choose. I have done some research on good old Google but still a little confused.

Here's a picture of the Windows 10 products to clarify.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Your 

28 minutes ago, G33kman said:

Well I don't have any Windows 7 clients but as far as the Windows 10 clients go how do you know which products to choose. I have done some research on good old Google but still a little confused.

Here's a picture of the Windows 10 products to clarify.

The easy way is to just download them all, but what products are you using?

[G33kman]

Well the only Microsoft products that we're using is Windows 10 Pro and office 365 (2016)

[Mikensan]

It will only actually download what you approve, so there is no harm in just selecting them all. Just do not automatically approve every update and you'll be fine. I usually filter by "needed" and approve as needed.