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VIDEO: How To Install and Configure Windows Server Update Services on Server 2016

This video demonstrates how to install Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2016.  We also quickly show the Group Policies required to have your office PC’s use the WSUS server as their source for updates.

How To Install & Configure Windows Server Update Services:


Minimum Server Hardware Specification For WSUS:

Hardware Low-end 500 or fewer clients Typical 500–3,000 clients High-end 3,000–20,000 clients, or rollup of 30,000 clients Super high-end 10,000 clients, or rollup of 100,000 clients
CPU 1 GHz 1.5 GHz or faster 3 GHz hyper threaded processor, x64 hardware 3 GHz hyper threaded dual processor
Graphics card 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp
RAM 1 GB 2 GB 2 GB 4 GB
Page file At least 1.5 times physical memory At least 1.5 times physical memory At least 1.5 times physical memory At least 1.5 times physical memory
I/O subsystem

Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives

Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives
Network card 10 MB 100 MB 1 GB 1 GB
Hard drive—system partition 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB
Hard drive—content storage 20 GB 30 GB 30 GB 30 GB
Hard drive—SQL Server installation 2 GB 2 GB 2 GB 2 GB

GPO’s For Client PC’s:

To have the PC’s on your network use your new WSUS server you need to make a few simple registry entries which you can easily handle using the following Group Policy:

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Solved: Complete List of Supported Guest Windows VM’s On Server 2016, 2012 R2, 2012 and 2008 R2

Yes, you can run Server 2016 VM’s on Server 2012 R2 Host.  In general Mircrosoft supports the release immediately after the host operating system (i.e. 2012 on 2008 R2, 2012 R2 on 2012 R1,…)


Server 2016 Supported Guest Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2016 is expected to be able to host Windows Server 2019 VM’s but as of today’s date the official line up for Server 2016 hosting VM’s is:

Guest Operating System Maximum Virtual Cores Integration Services
Windows Server 2016 240 for generation 2 Built-in
Windows Server 2016 64 for generation 1 Built-in
Windows Server 2012 R2 64 Built-in
Windows Server 2012 64 Built-in
Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 64 Install all critical Windows updates after you
Windows Server 2008 with SP2 8 Install all critical Windows updates after you set up the guest operating system.
Windows 10 32 Built-in
Windows 8.1 32 Built-in
Windows 7 with SP1 4 Upgrade the integration services after you set up the guest operating system.

Server 2012 R2 Supported Guest Operating Systems:

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