Are you responsible for the administration of your family’s computer systems? Would you like to push Microsoft’s OS updates to your home computers and reboot them automatically from a central location (like your server?) If you answered yes to these questions, WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) may be the answer.
Because WSUS downloads Microsoft’s updates one time and stores them on your server, you will reduce your bandwidth usage. Additionally, once the updates have been stored on your home server, updating your computers will be much faster.
Difficulty: Advanced – Install at your own risk. Note that this is an unsupported scenario, so there is no official support available should your installation go awry. That said, I personally installed WSUS twice on WHS 2011 without a problem, but your milage may vary.
What You Will Need
1. Download Applications
Let’s start by downloading and saving the two packages above to a shared folder on your home server.
2. Install Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008
We will install the MS Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 package on your server first. Log onto your server with a RDP connection. Navigate to the package and start to install it. Click Next.
Read and Check the License agreement and click Install.
Click finished. MS Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 is installed.
3. Install WSUS
Now, navigate to the WSUS install package it and start to install it. Click Next.
Installation Mode Selection. Select Full server installation and click Next.
