WSUS or Microsoft Software Update Services is free service software that allows to setup a server as a dedicated updates server. WSUS server can download Microsoft products updates such as Windows and MS Office updates and then these updates can be distributed to your local computers. Setting WSUS server will save a bandwidth hence one server communicates with Microsoft updates server and you can manually or automatically approve updates to your local LAN which also improves security and gives control over updates.
To install WSUS servers on a local server, follow these steps:
1. First Install
IIS on this server.
2. Download Software Update Services (SUS) package from
Microsoft and save on your local server.
3. Install the package once it’s downloaded.