Automatic Update - All Machines At Once?

So here's my question-- I have group policy set up to automatically update
all of our machines (200 of 'em) via WSUS at 3:00AM...now, what happens at
3:00AM when all of our machines start updating? Do the updates get queued? Or
does our WSUS server burst into flames due to all the sudden traffic?

Thanks,
Bryan Green
City of Pullman, WA

Man I don't know but I'll let you know on Friday when I do the same thing. I
am currently Synchronizing the server for updates right now.

Paul

"Bryan Green" wrote:

> So here's my question-- I have group policy set up to automatically update
> all of our machines (200 of 'em) via WSUS at 3:00AM...now, what happens at
> 3:00AM when all of our machines start updating? Do the updates get queued? Or
> does our WSUS server burst into flames due to all the sudden traffic?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Green
> City of Pullman, WA

Yeah, I'd appreciate knowing how it worked out for you...

Thanks!
Bryan

"Paul Avila" wrote:

> Man I don't know but I'll let you know on Friday when I do the same thing. I
> am currently Synchronizing the server for updates right now.
>
> Paul
>
> "Bryan Green" wrote:
>
> > So here's my question-- I have group policy set up to automatically update
> > all of our machines (200 of 'em) via WSUS at 3:00AM...now, what happens at
> > 3:00AM when all of our machines start updating? Do the updates get queued? Or
> > does our WSUS server burst into flames due to all the sudden traffic?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan Green
> > City of Pullman, WA

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~PA Bear

Bryan Green wrote:

> So here's my question-- I have group policy set up to automatically update
> all of our machines (200 of 'em) via WSUS at 3:00AM...now, what happens at
> 3:00AM when all of our machines start updating? Do the updates get queued?
> Or does our WSUS server burst into flames due to all the sudden traffic?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Green
> City of Pullman, WA

We have close to 500 pc's all set to do their updates at 12pm. Since its a
newer WSUS server and thats all this server does, we have had no problems.

"Bryan Green" wrote:

> So here's my question-- I have group policy set up to automatically update
> all of our machines (200 of 'em) via WSUS at 3:00AM...now, what happens at
> 3:00AM when all of our machines start updating? Do the updates get queued? Or
> does our WSUS server burst into flames due to all the sudden traffic?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Green
> City of Pullman, WA

"Bryan Green" wrote:

> So here's my question-- I have group policy set up to automatically update
> all of our machines (200 of 'em) via WSUS at 3:00AM...now, what happens at
> 3:00AM when all of our machines start updating? Do the updates get queued? Or
> does our WSUS server burst into flames due to all the sudden traffic?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Green
> City of Pullman, WA