Installation of WSUS 3.0

WSUS 3.0 SP1 delivers important customer-requested management, stability, and performance improvements. Some of the features and improvements include:

* Support for Windows Server 2008.
* Support for SQL Server 2008.
* Enhanced bulk approval capability, preserving existing approvals.
* Support for separate proxy servers and ports for SSL and non-SSL traffic.
* Office Excel report export.


WSUS 3.0 SP1 can be installed alone, or as an upgrade of either WSUS 3.0 RTM or WSUS 2.0 SP1.

This package installs both the WSUS 3.0 SP1 Server and WSUS 3.0 SP1 Administration Console components, for all Windows Server 2003 SP1 supported languages. Additionally, the WSUS 3.0 SP1 client is included in all supported client platform languages. You must install the server components on a computer running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later. You may install the Administration Console on a remote computer running Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 SP1, or Windows XP SP2.

WSUS 3.0 SP1 Server Installation on Windows Small Business Server 2003

If you are installing the WSUS 3.0 SP1 product on Windows Small Business Server 2003, follow the instructions in Installing Windows Server Update Services 3.0 on Windows Small Business Server 2003.


Installation


Install the Report Viewer first

Double-click on the Report viewer exe, choose next to continue at the welcome screen



accept the license terms



click Install to install

once done click finish.





Install WSUS


Double click on the WSUS exe, choose next at the welcome screen



choose the Full Server installation



accept the license agreement



Select your update source (local or on windowsupdate)



now if you havn't installed SQL 2008 yet, then please do so as the next screen will allow us to pick between an internal windows database (first option) or to connect to our MSSQL database (default) second option.

Choose use existing database as below in the screenshot



it will hopefully successfully connect to your database, click next to continue



when prompted what IIS website to use, choose the default option (use the existing IIS website)



you'll see a summary click next to continue



that's it, all done, click Finish.