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Configuring the WSUS server
Once you've installed the WSUS server role, you need to run the WSUS Server Configuration
Wizard to configure how the WSUS server functions. The WSUS Server Configuration Wizard
allows you to configure WSUS server settings. Running this wizard involves performing the
following steps:
1.
Choose whether the WSUS server will synchronize with Microsoft update, or synchro-
nize with another WSUS server. If you synchronize with Microsoft update, the WSUS
server will obtain updates from Microsoft's servers through the Internet. If you choose
to synchronize with another WSUS server, you can choose to synchronize updates from
that server, or configure the WSUS server as a replica, in which case you will synchro-
nize approvals, settings, computers, and groups from the server. You configure replica
servers in scenarios where you want to deploy multiple WSUS servers, but have them
all use the same settings. Figure 5-9 shows a WSUS server configured to synchronize
as a replica. When you configure a WSUS server as a replica, you don't need to choose
languages, products, or classifications.
FIGURE 5-9
Windows Server Update Services Configuration Wizard
2.
Next, you configure whether the WSUS server will use a proxy server during synchroni-
zation. If required, you can configure proxy server credentials.
