WSUS hardware requirements??

Hello,

I'm researching WSUS as a means of keeping our servers and XP boxes
updated.

1. What are the hardware requirements??

(Our servers are Win2k3 SP1, with Exchange 2003, SQL Server 2005, and
eventually an intranet (IIS, ASP.NET 2.0, maybe SharePoint, total 4
servers, plus about 15 XP boxes which are not easily manually
maintained.)

2. Can anyone advises on any "gotchas" or special considerations one
needs to know about with using WSUS, particularly for XP desktops??

Thank you, Tom

P.S. Are there any good websites on WSUS besides Microsoft??

Wrong newsgroup. Try microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services
instead.
--
~PA Bear

tlyczko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm researching WSUS as a means of keeping our servers and XP boxes
> updated.
>
> 1. What are the hardware requirements??
>
> (Our servers are Win2k3 SP1, with Exchange 2003, SQL Server 2005, and
> eventually an intranet (IIS, ASP.NET 2.0, maybe SharePoint, total 4
> servers, plus about 15 XP boxes which are not easily manually
> maintained.)
>
> 2. Can anyone advises on any "gotchas" or special considerations one
> needs to know about with using WSUS, particularly for XP desktops??
>
> Thank you, Tom
>
> P.S. Are there any good websites on WSUS besides Microsoft??

On the official site it states 24GB for storage of the WSUS database. I'm
using WSUS 2.0 and only using about 6GB. Do I really need 24GB? Does anybody
have any real-world data. We're handling only English updates for XP. At some
point we'll also be doing Vista. Servers are not part of the equation as we
manually deal with them.

Thanks
Ric

"Rixter" <> wrote in message
news:657A0C74-CF8F-44A0-AF82-...
> On the official site it states 24GB for storage of the WSUS database. I'm
> using WSUS 2.0 and only using about 6GB. Do I really need 24GB? Does
> anybody
> have any real-world data. We're handling only English updates for XP. At
> some
> point we'll also be doing Vista. Servers are not part of the equation as
> we
> manually deal with them.

Ric, the answer to this question comes in about six different flavors.

The Microsoft 'estimate' is based on the following:
[a] All languages
[b] All products
[c] All update classifications
[d] Express Installation Files

And, for that, the 24GB estimate was valid for about 30 days after WSUS was
released. :-)))

Your usage of 6GB is actually above average, but not necessarily abnormal,
if you have any of these options:
[a] More than one language
[b] Office Updates
[c] Service Packs
[d] Express Installation Files
[e] Unpurged expired/declined/unneeded updates
[f] Legacy service packs (e.g. XP SP1, Win2003SP3)

On my system, synchronizing Windows XP past SP2, Windows Server 2003 past
SP1, Office 2003, for English only, no Express Installation Files, and
regular file maintenance to purge expired and declined updates, my actual
disk consumption hovers around 1.5GB.

I would estimate that English-only updates for only Windows XP, assuming XP
SP2 as a baseline install, your total disk consumption should be less than
1GB. If you've approved/downloaded XP SP2, then add another 270MB to account
for that service pack. If you've enabled Express Installation Files,
multiply that by a factor of 5x, and that would just about account for 6GB
of space on a WSUS server servicing only XP SP2 systems.

--
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MVP-Software Distribution
Everything you need for WSUS is at
http://technet2.microsoft.com/window...s/default.mspx
And, everything else is at
http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
.....

Thats fantastic. VERY helpful. Thanks Lawrence!

"Lawrence Garvin (MVP)" wrote:

> "Rixter" <> wrote in message
> news:657A0C74-CF8F-44A0-AF82-...
> > On the official site it states 24GB for storage of the WSUS database. I'm
> > using WSUS 2.0 and only using about 6GB. Do I really need 24GB? Does
> > anybody
> > have any real-world data. We're handling only English updates for XP. At
> > some
> > point we'll also be doing Vista. Servers are not part of the equation as
> > we
> > manually deal with them.
>
> Ric, the answer to this question comes in about six different flavors.
>
> The Microsoft 'estimate' is based on the following:
> [a] All languages
> [b] All products
> [c] All update classifications
> [d] Express Installation Files
>
> And, for that, the 24GB estimate was valid for about 30 days after WSUS was
> released. :-)))
>
> Your usage of 6GB is actually above average, but not necessarily abnormal,
> if you have any of these options:
> [a] More than one language
> [b] Office Updates
> [c] Service Packs
> [d] Express Installation Files
> [e] Unpurged expired/declined/unneeded updates
> [f] Legacy service packs (e.g. XP SP1, Win2003SP3)
>
> On my system, synchronizing Windows XP past SP2, Windows Server 2003 past
> SP1, Office 2003, for English only, no Express Installation Files, and
> regular file maintenance to purge expired and declined updates, my actual
> disk consumption hovers around 1.5GB.
>
> I would estimate that English-only updates for only Windows XP, assuming XP
> SP2 as a baseline install, your total disk consumption should be less than
> 1GB. If you've approved/downloaded XP SP2, then add another 270MB to account
> for that service pack. If you've enabled Express Installation Files,
> multiply that by a factor of 5x, and that would just about account for 6GB
> of space on a WSUS server servicing only XP SP2 systems.
>
> --
> Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MVP-Software Distribution
> Everything you need for WSUS is at
> http://technet2.microsoft.com/window...s/default.mspx
> And, everything else is at
> http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
> .....
>
>
>