WINDOWS UPDATE CATEGORIES

There are various kinds of updates that are provided by Microsoft corporation. Few of them were listed below.

• Critical Updates
• Security Updates
• Definition Updates
• Update Rollup
• Service pack
• Tool
• Feature pack
• Update

Critical Updates are updates which fixes specific, non-security related, critical bug. That bug can cause for example serious execution degradation, interoperability malfunction or disturb application compatibility.

Security Updates are one of the important type of updates which makes the the complete corporation to be safe against the world of hackers.

WSUS (Windows Server Update Services)

The concept of patch management is one of the significant service that a firm need to run periodically to update themselves and be strong in every single viewpoint. WSUS is a service developed by the Microsoft, which helps in managing and distribution of the patches to multiple servers from the main server. In the point of practicality a server (Windows 2019) is launched as an instance in AWS and connected remotely

A new role Windows server update services and its features were added to the server accordingly and installed.

• Windows start > Server manager > Add roles and features //follow the default options on the screen to add a role windows server update service and install the corresponding role.
• Before configuring the role, Launch the post installation tasks (from the notification bar as shown below).

• Server manager > Tools > Windows server update service > Create a folder name WSUS in the drive and mention the desired file location and click Run. \\ A dialogue box for the file confirmation appears on the screen as shown.

• Click close to launch WSUS console.
• Follow the on screen commands to configure the WSUS.
• As it is the main server to which the the updates needed to be synchronized from the Microsoft, select the option of synchronize from Microsoft Update as shown.

• Use the proxy details if needed or else continue further to start connecting with the Microsoft for updating with the details of our server.
• Select the desired language and click Finish.

Patience is the key for success

Patience is the other important role and feature that needed to be added for success to be followed in this configuration.