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FIGURE 1-5
The Add Features That Are Required For Windows Server Update Services page
The WSUS installation defaults to using the Windows Internal Database (WID) as the WSUS
repository. Alternately, you can choose to use SQL Server as the repository by selecting Data-
base instead of WID Database on the Select Role Services page of the Add Roles And Features
Wizard. You can't install both on the same server, however. If you intend to have only a single
WSUS server at a site, the default is generally a good choice. But if you need a shared data-
base across multiple WSUS servers, need SQL query access to the database, or already have a
SQL Server infrastructure in place, choose SQL Server instead.
The WSUS content can be stored on Windows Update, keeping the disk footprint smaller,
or it can be stored on a locally accessible volume or share for reduced wide area network
(WAN) utilization and faster access. The default is to use a locally accessible location. This
location must be an NTFS-formatted volume and needs to have at least 6 GB of free disk
space (and a good deal more for most networks.)
When the installation of the Windows Server Update Services role is complete, you'll see
the WSUS node in Server Manager. If you click the Configuration Required For Windows
Server Update Services yellow bar in the Servers pane (see Figure 1-6), the configuration will
complete with the settings you made during the Add Roles And Features Wizard.
