In one of the previous articles we have described the installation of a WSUS server on Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016 in details. After you have configured the update server, you need to configure Windows clients (server and workstations) in order to use the WSUS server to receive updates. Thus, all Windows clients on your network should receive updates from the internal update server, and not from Microsoft Update servers via the Internet. In this article, we will take a look on how to configure clients to use a WSUS server using Active Directory domain group policies (GPO).
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