Editor's note 9.25.2024: This post has been updated to define deprecation and provide clarity on how this impacts WSUS. As part of our vision for simplified Windows management from the cloud, Micr...
Updated Sep 24, 2024
Version 2.0
Blog Post
The biggest issue with WSUS was while default settings worked fine when it was developed the catalog is so big and complex you have to make IIS pools bigger or the backend crashes. Second biggest issue was the lack of filtering, especially back when IA64 was still a supported architecture (I never "met" an Itanium and never needed to approve any of these).
Seemed pretty clear WSUS was in maintenance mode for most of the last decade or more only really "version support" changing, but it still has a useful feature set, e.g. hosting updates that maybe otherwise would get downloaded 100s or even 1000s of times not to mention the sometimes environment saving feature of being able to defer updates until you know the safety of updates.
Sad but I guess not entirely unexpected news.