The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P14:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 96 Chapter 4 Security Templates and Software Updates connect internally to your server. This system reduces WAN bandwidth requirements while also increasing security by minimizing the number of clients connecting outside of your network. Also this centralized control allows you to test updates before deploying them. There are basically two components to this system. SUS is the server component responsible for downloading the updates from Microsoft s servers. Also the SUS component provides centralized control of updates. The second component to the system is the Automatic Updates client software. This software offers a mechanism for clients to connect to either Microsoft s update servers or to your centralized update server. Let s see how this system is configured. Install and Configure Software Update Infrastructure The software update infrastructure SUS provides centralized administration and distribution of software updates within your organization s network. In this section we will focus on the server components of the SUS infrastructure. The system is not a single piece of software but actually a combination of components that make up the infrastructure. To provide a centralized in-house SUS infrastructure SUS uses the following three components A new synchronization service called Windows Update Synchronization Service. This service downloads content to your SUS server. A server running an Internet Information Services IIS Web server services the update requests from Automatic Updates clients. An SUS administration Web page. SUS has the following software and minimum hardware requirements Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 Pentium III 700 MHz or higher processor A network card 512 megabytes of RAM 6 gigabytes GB of free hard disk space on an NTFS partition for storage of update packages A minimum of 100MB of free space on an NTFS partition for installation of SUS itself Microsoft Internet Explorer or above According to Microsoft this .
