by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2020.07.13 | Published on 2019.06.19 | Guides, WSUS
Language Packs (LPs) and Language Interface Packs (LIPs) are different than any other update that comes across WSUS. When you see a bunch of LPs and LIPs, the WSUS views may look overwhelming with the number of updates, especially on a new build of Windows is added...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2020.07.13 | Published on 2019.05.22 | Guides, WSUS
Microsoft is ‘trying’ to make this easy. Unfortunately they’ve used the wrong lingo in what understandings people have of said lingo. Business Edition upgrades don’t have to do with how you’re using Windows 10 – in a business...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2021.12.22 | Published on 2019.03.02 | Guides, WSUS
Connecting to the Windows Internal Database (WID) can only be done LOCALLY. It cannot be done from a remote machine. This is one of the trade-offs for using WID over SQL Express (but SQL Express carries a hard database size limit where as the WID does not). Using SQL...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2020.07.13 | Published on 2019.02.25 | Guides, WSUS
Windows Update for Business (WUfB) is a new method of thinking about how updates are done. It is a fundamental switch in how you look at dealing with updates. It can make your life easier if you can just get over the fundamental switch in realizing that you have...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2022.10.29 | Published on 2019.02.21 | Guides, WSUS
As Microsoft changes Windows 10 to use more Features on Demand (FOD), there will be a much larger pull to have these updates come directly from Microsoft. Currently (2019.02), feature on demand updates don’t flow down to WSUS specifically from 1809. I’m...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2022.10.29 | Published on 2019.01.31 | Guides, WSUS
What do the following have in common for WSUS Administrators? Select when Preview Builds and Feature Updates are received (BranchReadinessLevel, DeferFeatureUpdates, DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodInDays, PauseFeatureUpdatesStartTime) Select when Quality Updates are...
