Editor's note 4.7.2025 – A new decision overrides the below announcement. You will be able to continue using WSUS driver synchronization after April 18, 2025. Please read Continuing WSUS support for ...
Updated Apr 08, 2025
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Right, JS-DE basically confirmed that there was no meaningful outreach plan. A blog, a tweet, and we could have ensured thousands, if not tens of thousands of people were aware. I'd love to know how many actual responses they got but barring the actual number, what's the ratio between survey responses and the number of daily catalog syncs?
Even more concerning to me, the survey wasn't about 'should we do this' but apparently 'how much pain are we going to cause'. People generally do not need to sync every driver into WSUS at the category level. However, they absolutely need the ability to import drivers into WSUS on an as-needed basis: either directly from the global update catalog or via an 3rd party update catalog via ConfigMgr.