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This is the WSUS Deployment Guide (Community Edition), as developed by the WSUS Community. Microsoft has produced an official WSUS Deployment Guide. These pages provide additional information and best practices that is not covered in official Deployment Guide.

If you have a topic that you would like to get more detail information on please add it to the list below and WSUS experts in the community can provide details, advice and work arounds.

Deployment Guide Index

WSUS Before You Deploy This is a short introduction to what you need installed before you start to deploy WSUS.

WSUS on SBS Installation on SBS is fairly straightfoward, but like everything SBS-wise, it takes some additional work.

WSUS Install In VM Installing WSUS in a virtual machine, using either VMware or MS virtualisation products is easy, and great for testing This page notes VPC/VS/VMware related WSUS issues.

Creating Target Groups Provides advices on how to best segment your network into multiple target groups.

WSUS Upgrade From SUS Looks at how you can upgrade a hierarchy of SUS servers to WSUS.

Migrating the database from MSDE or WMDSE to SQL Server 2000

Patch Management and WSUS Best Practices Tell us what you have done in your company or organization that has been particularly successful. Share your success stories of patch management.

Advanced Deployment Options Provides guidance on how to take advantage of advanced WSUS deployment options such as Replicas, Chaining, and Offline Updates.

Storing WSUS Content On A Remote Drive (HOWTO) Steps through the process of storing WSUS Content (update files) on a linux fileserver seperate from the WSUS server.

Other topics to be added:

• Document any interaction with AD