The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P15: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. | 106 Chapter 4 Security Templates and Software Updates UseWUServer Set this to 1 to enable Automatic Updates to use the server running Software Update Services as specified in WUServer Registry Value Type Reg_DWORD Now in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Policies Microsoft Windows WindowsUpdate add the following registry entries WUServer Sets the SUS server by HTTP name Registry Value Type Reg_SZ WUStatusServer Sets the SUS statistics server by HTTP name Registry Value Type Reg_SZ Testing Software Updates Software updates were designed to fix security problems or to improve the performance or functionality of your network systems. With the enormous amount of software available for current Windows operating systems and with the massive amount of different types of hardware available it is impossible from a practical standpoint to test every scenario in which a software update might be applied. Some software updates can have adverse affects on your client system performance or operating capabilities. It is considered best practice to try to simulate your network environment as accurately as possible in a test lab environment in an effort to pre-test software updates before deploying them to your production environment. Testing should occur in a lab environment that models your production network. If possible you should have at least two instances of each type of hardware used in your hardware should be configured with the same software and settings that typical clients with this type of system would should have a server configured as a test SUS server for the network and you should have a sufficient number of servers set up in the lab to model the production network. As new updates become available using the SUS test server you should approve updates individually and test them against your lab systems to verify proper operation. Try to put the software through its paces making sure that the update that was applied has not adversely affected the .
