| WSUS 3.0 Release Candidate |
| Wednesday, 14 February 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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Straightforward Installment In place upgrade over 2.0 New configuration wizard to guide setup and configuration Improved Administrative Experience New MMC based powerful UI (can also be installed as a remote console on clients (e.g. XP) & host multiple WSUS servers in one console Custom views and results filtering Report Viewer only admin group Integrated in-context reporting Clean up wizard for management of stale clients/content & built in email notifications Reporting rollup support Multiple, granular auto-approval rule options Enhanced Target group concepts including hierarchies for approval inheritance or block, and overlapping target group membership support Flexible Deployment Options to improve Branch Office support Support for language sub-setting on downstream replica servers Independent replica content source options (MU or Upstream Server) Synchronization up to every hour (vs. 1xday) Performance Enhancements and Operational Reliability 50% improvement in reporting performance report viewers only admin group Native support for x64 platform Network Load Balancing & SQL cluster support MOM management Pack for proactive alerts on server health More.... Easy access to drivers and hot fixes Personalization to make the MU Catalog customized to your downloading need And yes ladies and gentleman... (and this brings a tear to my eye of happiness...) we are finally going to see the day that you can actually update your WSUS (the U is for UPDATE) client *on demand*! Bring out the beer: Client synch me now quick check-in/download support of pending approved updates from WSUS or needed updates from Microsoft Update. If you are as exited as me (which I hope you're not) then you can sign up for the public beta here.
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