Megh Neupane

Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (WSUS 3.0 SP2) delivers updates to corporate environments from Microsoft Update. This release adds new features and fixes issues found since the release of the product. WSUS 3.0 SP2 delivers important customer-requested management, stability, and performance improvements. Some of the features and improvements include the following:

• Integration with Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Support for the BranchCache feature in Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients.
• Compliance Report
• Windows Update Agent (WUA) offers a collection of performance enhancements, user experience improvements, and bug fixes software updates.

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A group policy setting can suppress any notification for required reboot avoiding the system to never reboot (possible) neither notify the user for a reboot. This can affect corporate systems where users typically are not actively involved in cycled update patching and generally hate for any patching involving reboot. This article will discuss different group policy settings that can impact either a computer or a user’s configuration for setting Automatic Windows Update for the system.

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