{"id":2757,"date":"2019-05-15T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2019-05-15T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:58:55","slug":"windows-server-update-services-wsus-2012-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 2012: Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Windows Server Update Services Prerequisites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you begin installing the WSUS role on Windows Server 2012, the server should meet the following prerequisites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Microsoft .<strong>NET Framework 4.0<\/strong>&nbsp;must be installed on the WSUS server.<\/li><li>The Network Service account must have full access to the&nbsp;<em>%windir%\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\Temporary ASP.NET Files<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>%windir%\\Temp<\/em>&nbsp;file paths.<\/li><li>The account you use to install WSUS must be a member of the Local Administrators group.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 is installed by default on Windows Server 2012, so unless you have specifically removed it, you don\u2019t need to do anything other than check that it\u2019s installed. The&nbsp;<em>Temporary ASP.NET Files&nbsp;<\/em>folder is installed as part of Internet Information Services (IIS), which is a requirement for WSUS and is installed as an additional component during the WSUS setup process. Therefore, unless IIS is already installed on your server, you can add the Full Control permission for the NT Authority\\Network Service account after WSUS has installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Installing the WSUS role<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example, I\u2019m going to install WSUS in a single server topology that gets its updates from Microsoft Update and then distributes them to the rest of the network, and use WSUS with the default Windows Internal Database (WID). WSUS supports the use of other databases, such as Microsoft SQL Express 2008 R2 (or higher) and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (or later), either on the same server as WSUS or on a different domain joined server (but not a domain controller). If you have access to a supported instance of Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft recommends using it instead of WID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Log on to Windows Server 2012 as a local administrator.<\/li><li>Open&nbsp;<strong>Server Manager<\/strong>&nbsp;from the Start screen or Task Bar icon on the desktop.<\/li><li>In Server Manager, select&nbsp;<strong>Add Roles and Features<\/strong>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<strong>Manage<\/strong>&nbsp;menu.<\/li><li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Roles&nbsp;<\/strong>in the left pane of the Add Roles and Features wizard.<\/li><li>Select&nbsp;<strong>Windows Server Update Services<\/strong>&nbsp;at the bottom of the roles list. Then click&nbsp;<strong>Add Features&nbsp;<\/strong>in the pop-up dialog to add additional components that are required by WSUS. Click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>&nbsp;in the Add Roles and Features wizard.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"470\" src=\"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/server.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/server.jpg 545w, https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/server-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>&nbsp;on the Features screen, then&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>&nbsp;on the Windows Server Update Services screen.<\/li><li>On the Role Services screen, check&nbsp;<strong>WID Database&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>WSUS Services<\/strong>. Then click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/li><li>On the Content location selection screen, enter a path where WSUS will store updates. In this example, I\u2019ve already created a local folder (c:\\WSUS Updates) for this purpose. Click&nbsp;<strong>Confirmation&nbsp;<\/strong>in the left pane of the Add Roles and Features Wizard.<\/li><li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Install<\/strong>&nbsp;on the Confirmation screen.<\/li><li>Once the installation has completed, click&nbsp;<strong>Close<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Find the&nbsp;<em>Temporary ASP.NET Files&nbsp;<\/em>folder in the&nbsp;<em>%windir%\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\&nbsp;<\/em>directory and give the Network Service account&nbsp;<strong>Full Control<\/strong>. Do the same for the Temp folder in %windir% (usually C:\\Windows).<\/li><li>In the top right of Server Manager, click the yellow warning icon and then select&nbsp;<strong>Launch Post-Installation tasks<\/strong>. After a few minutes, you should see that the post installation tasks have completed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"327\" src=\"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Figure21.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Figure21.jpg 362w, https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Figure21-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Windows Server Update Services Configuration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that WSUS is installed and the post-installation tasks completed, we need to do some simple configuration. Make sure that your WSUS server has Internet connectivity so that it can download updates from Microsoft Update before continuing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In Server Manager, select&nbsp;<strong>Windows Server Update Services<\/strong>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<strong>Tools<\/strong>&nbsp;menu. The Windows Server Update Services Configuration Wizard will open in a separate window.<\/li><li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>&nbsp;on the Before You Begin Screen and again on the Microsoft Update Improvement Program screen.<\/li><li>Select&nbsp;<strong>Synchronize from Microsoft Update<\/strong>&nbsp;on the Choose Update Server screen and click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Add your proxy server details (if you have an HTTP proxy on your network), or otherwise click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>&nbsp;to continue.<\/li><li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Start Connecting<\/strong>&nbsp;to confirm the upstream server information. This might take a few minutes. Once completed, click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Select the required languages for your updates on the Choose Languages screen and click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/li><li>On the Choose Products screen, select the Microsoft products for which you want WSUS to download updates. All supported Office and Windows products are selected by default. Click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>&nbsp;to continue.<\/li><li>On the Choose Classifications screen, choose the types of updates you\u2019d like WSUS to download and click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the Configure Sync Schedule screen, decide whether you want to initiate synchronization manually or schedule a synchronization job to download updates. Click&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>&nbsp;to continue.<\/li><li>On the Finished screen, check&nbsp;<strong>Begin initial synchronization<\/strong>&nbsp;and click&nbsp;<strong>Finish<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server Update Services Prerequisites Before you begin installing the WSUS role on Windows Server 2012, the server should meet the following prerequisites: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0&nbsp;must be installed on the WSUS server. The Network Service account must have full access to the&nbsp;%windir%\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\Temporary ASP.NET Files&nbsp;and&nbsp;%windir%\\Temp&nbsp;file paths. The account you use to install WSUS must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-windows-server-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}