It's for administrators familiar with WSUS 3.2 and previous versions. It also has information about accessing the policy extensions and Maintenance Scheduler settings in Group Policy for update services.Ĭhanges to WSUS relevant to this guide gives a brief summary of key differences between the current and past versions of WSUS relevant to this guide. Supplemental information has the following subsections:Īccessing the Windows Update settings in Group Policy provides general guidance about using the Group Policy Management Editor (GPME). Group Policy settings for WSUS client updates provides prescriptive guidance and behavioral details about the Windows Update and Maintenance Scheduler settings of Group Policy that control how WSUS clients can interact with Windows Update to obtain automatic updates. This article refers to these computers and users as WSUS clients.

In an Active Directory environment, you can use Group Policy to define how computers and users can interact with Windows Update to obtain automatic updates from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012