Windows server 2012 WSUS Server

Majumdar, Anjan 1

Hello Gurus,

I am running WSUS Server on a Windows 2012 server. Can I use the Windows 2012 WSUS server to patch Windows 2019 Servers ?

Our environment does not have access to the internet due to security reasons. What is the manual process / How to configure the WSUS repository manually.

Any help or guidance is highly appreciated.

Thanks

Anjan

1 answer

Rita Hu -MSFT 9,626 Reputation points

2021-06-30T05:53:03.007+00:00

anonymous user
Thanks for your posting on Q&A.
I am running WSUS Server on a Windows 2012 server. Can I use the Windows 2012 WSUS server to patch Windows 2019 Servers ?
Of course, we could deploy updates for windows server 2019 servers by windows server 2012 WSUS server.

Our environment does not have access to the internet due to security reasons. What is the manual process / How to configure the WSUS repository manually.
We have to create two WSUS servers, one could connect to the internet to get the required updates and the other use to deploy updates to the clients in the internal. Please follow this link. Note that the link is old, but it is suitable for the other WSUS version.

Hope the above will be helpful. Please keep us in touch if there are any questions while deploying the environment.

Regards,
Rita

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Majumdar, Anjan 1 Reputation point

2021-06-30T06:06:37.477+00:00

Hi Rita,

Thanks for the Update. Can you please guide me on How do we set up the configuration of the downstream/upstream WSUS Servers.

Is there any process where we upload the Microsoft Patches manually in the WSUS server and then deploy it to the other windows 2019 server. I was looking for something we do in the Redhat Satellite servers where we create a local repository and all the servers are pointed to the local repository.

Thanks in Advance.

Anjan

Rita Hu -MSFT 9,626 Reputation points

2021-06-30T09:17:34.307+00:00

Hello Anjan,

According to this link, we have to creat two WSUS servers, one could connect to the Internet, the other couldn't. We should confirm whether the two WSUS server match express file installation and language settings on export and import servers as this link first.

Then we should sync the required metadata and approve the required updates on the connected WSUS server(The Binary update files will be downloaded on the WSUS server only if you approve the required updates)

Last, Export the metadata and Binary update files from the connected WSUS server and import to the disconnected WSUS server.

Note that we could refer to this link to deploy WSUS server.

Majumdar, Anjan 1 Reputation point

2021-07-01T00:15:17.567+00:00

Thanks for the update.

Rita Hu -MSFT 9,626 Reputation points

2021-07-01T01:44:21.223+00:00

Don't hesitate to inform me if you have any questions while deploying the environment.

Thanks for your time and have a good day :)

Rita Hu -MSFT 9,626 Reputation points

2021-07-05T07:06:18.427+00:00

anonymous user
Is there any help I could provide? Please inform me in this forum if there are any questions.

Thanks for your time :)

Majumdar, Anjan 1 Reputation point

2021-08-04T05:51:45.29+00:00

Hi Rita,

Hope you are doing well. When I am trying to setup the WSUS and it ask which updates needs to be configured in that list I dont see 2019 as an option. How to select 2019 for updates , can you please guide me. Thanks Anjan

Rita Hu -MSFT 9,626 Reputation points

2021-08-04T06:48:38.403+00:00

Hello Anjan,

thanks for your response.

To avoid misunderstanding, please try to provide a screenshot for reference.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards,
Rita

Majumdar, Anjan 1 Reputation point

2021-08-11T04:29:22.75+00:00

Hi Rita, Hope you are doing good. Thanks for all your help. I have the initial setup ready but under computers and All computers under the WSUS server it is not showing the windows client. The port 8350 is open still the host is not showing up under the computers except the local windows computer. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks Anjan![122168-photo.jpg][1] [1]: /api/attachments/122168-photo.jpg?platform=QnA

Rita Hu -MSFT 9,626 Reputation points

2021-08-11T08:38:21.247+00:00

anonymous user
Thanks for your feedback.

Please review the below registry value to confirm whether the clients have enabled the policy first:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

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In addition, it seems that it is a different issue from the first one. We recommend to post one question in one thread. Please consider accepting the useful answer if the first issue has been resolved. Then we could open a new post on this forum. We could disscuss the issue in the new post.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Wish you have a great day :)

Regards，
Rita
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