Event banner
Your guide to going cloud-native
Event Ended
Tuesday, Oct 25, 2022, 08:30 AM PDTEvent details
Learn the practical steps your organization needs to take to be cloud ready; from mindset, to planning, to rollout. We'll focus on what your organization can do today to get instant cloud value with ...
Heather_Poulsen
Updated Dec 27, 2024
Paul_Woodward
Oct 25, 2022Iron Contributor
I'm still running WSUS for the Windows Servers. What's the best "easy win" to get the servers over to WUfB.
- Jason_SandysOct 25, 2022
Microsoft
Windows Update for Business does not support Windows Server. Azure ARC, which includes many things like Azure Automation, is our first-class from the cloud server management solution and includes delivering updates to Windows Server as well as other OSes.- bdam55Oct 25, 2022Iron Contributor
I don't think that's technically true true Jason: WUfB can and is being used to manage servers by a few, brave souls. Even the WUfB Deployment Service doesn't exclude them; there's just no first party UI for server management.
To be clear, I'm not necessarily advocating for WUfB over Azure Automation Update Management though unless things have changed there the reporting story is even worse.- Jason_SandysOct 25, 2022
Microsoft
Yes, you are correct (reference https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-configure-wufb), Bryan. I over generalized the supported aspect here and was characterizing that more from an Intune perspective which does not support Servers. "Brace souls" is the accurate characterization as well as I can't imagine truly doing this for their production servers.
- MikeBeckerOct 25, 2022Copper ContributorUpdate Management in Azure Automation is your server win. I moved to that and you can set MX windows, groups of machines and all that jazz. Works pretty well.