Wsus or sccm for windows updates

For more information, please check the Wikipedia article about ransomware. However, it needed some improvement. Some users never shutdown their computer systems at the end of a working day. Thus, they could postpone the system restarts forever as these usually are executed when the computer is rebooted.

In these cases, the installation of critical security updates is never completed. This is a bad situation as Windows systems are dependent on a restart to finish the installation of Windows updates. As a result, the customer wanted to make sure that updates are installed, systems rebooted when necessary, and the users informed properly. Using these mechanisms, updates are distributed to laptops and client computer systems. The Configuration Manager Client as well as the settings that are used are essential for this mechanism.

The behavior of the Configuration Manager Client is controlled by the settings as shown in the screenshots below. Set these restart options as they fit you best. My customer decided that these settings suits his needs:. Everything is set, so that when the Windows security updates are deployed, the settings as configured above will be applied. Every second Tuesday of the month Microsoft releases new updates. Security updates will be selected for distribution in these weeks.

The updates are distributed to a pilot group of users before the they are finally being releases to all company systems. In the screenshot below, the SCCM collections are shown. I leave it open how to collect the members for the computer collections. However, I suggest using WMI queries or maybe direct membership for pilot purposes. Just make sure the collections are filled with the computer systems who should receive the Windows updates. In the Software Update Groups, I made two groups for the two system collections.

See the screenshot below. The user is informed that there are updates available. Users can ignore these messages for three days. Best Regards, Tina. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help.

If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff microsoft. In the settings app, it advises that "Your organization has turned off automatic updates" Good. On a few computers that were unable to download from the store previously because they had 'Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet Locations' enabled in the registry for some unknown reason, they are now able to download apps and the registry value is set as '0' Good.

Users are still able to check online for updates in settings, however it sounds like disabling this stops the Store from working and that's what I don't want to happen. In the end, as long as computers aren't automatically pulling updates from Microsoft and the store is working, I'll be happy :. It's been driving me nuts trying to figure out which policies I need to get it right. Office Office Exchange Server.

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This endpoint supports TLS 1. When you experience WSUS synchronization or manual import problems, first check which endpoint you're synchronizing with:. Many users import updates into WSUS manually, and some updates must be imported manually.

For example, preview updates that are released in the third and fourth weeks of the month must be manually imported.

Starting at the end of July , you might have found you can't manually import updates. However, some WSUS servers can still import updates successfully. And the usual synchronization with WU and MU continues to work. Look for errors that resemble the following example:. Frame is the server response. To set the registry keys, see Configure for strong cryptography. Restart the server after you set the registry keys.

This change will apply to all w3wp. If TLS 1. Create a new file that's named W3wp. After you create or update the W3wp.

Test whether manual import now works. TLS 1. After you disable these protocols, you can no longer import updates. However, synchronization continues to work. Run iisreset at an elevated command prompt to force WSUS to go through the startup sequence.