setting WU clients to a MONTHLY (not weekly) schedule

Hello all and thanks for taking a moment to review my post.

My organization has several hundred Windows 2000 and 2003 servers that
we currently patch manually because of application considerations.
Each application has a dedicated maintenance window where the systems
engineer assigned to it logs on and visits Microsoft's update site.

I hope to install a Windows Update Server to manage these patches. All
of the features we need for this solution seem to be present with a
single (but very important) exception.

I need to have the clients downloading and installing their patches on
a once-a-month basis and it appears the only option is to have them
look for new updates every day or on a given day of the week. I am
concerned that if I allow the servers to download and install updates
every Thursday for instance, it will lead to as many as 4 reboots a
month.

Does anyone have recommendations or a method to demand clients look
for these updates on my WSUS server once a month? It sounds like a lot
of overhead to manually turn on and off servers in the WSUS console...


Thanks in advance for any ideas!
J

WSUS Scheduling

While it is true that you can not schedule the clients to check monthly with
the WSUS server, that does not matter in most environments. I generally
configure clients to check daily. No updates are delivered unless you approve
them on the WSUS server. If you approve them monthly they only update
monthly. The problem with scheduling the clients for once a mont updates (if
you could) is that if you had not tested and approved the updates yet, the
clients would have to wait another month to get the updates. In today's
security environment that is not acceptable.

https://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet...5270&SiteID=17
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"" wrote:

> Hello all and thanks for taking a moment to review my post.
>
> My organization has several hundred Windows 2000 and 2003 servers that
> we currently patch manually because of application considerations.
> Each application has a dedicated maintenance window where the systems
> engineer assigned to it logs on and visits Microsoft's update site.
>
> I hope to install a Windows Update Server to manage these patches. All
> of the features we need for this solution seem to be present with a
> single (but very important) exception.
>
> I need to have the clients downloading and installing their patches on
> a once-a-month basis and it appears the only option is to have them
> look for new updates every day or on a given day of the week. I am
> concerned that if I allow the servers to download and install updates
> every Thursday for instance, it will lead to as many as 4 reboots a
> month.
>
> Does anyone have recommendations or a method to demand clients look
> for these updates on my WSUS server once a month? It sounds like a lot
> of overhead to manually turn on and off servers in the WSUS console...
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas!
> J
>
>