By way of Group Policy, Active Directory is the core delivery mechanism for WSUS clientconfigurations settings.

The wuau.adm ADM is the brains of all WSUS configurationinformation.

Try to design your OU structure around WSUS client update needs, enabling GPOs with commonWSUS settings at the top level and using more client-specific WSUS GPOs closer to the clients homeOU.

Use and familiarize yourself with the GPMC to help you manage and troubleshoot your GPOinfrastructure.

Use local settings for WSUS client configuration only if Active Directory is not available,or you have one-off clients outside your Active Directory environment.

Local settings do not override the Group Policy setting ifyou are configuring local settings on a client in Active Directory. Use the LSDO methodology whenlooking at your policy application order.

Editing the local registry to make WSUS changes can be accomplished using various scriptingmethods with the help of the reg.exe command-line utility anddoes not require a local machine visit.

Different versions of Windows ship with different versions of the AU client; however thebuilt-in selfupdate feature of WSUS allows clients tocontinuously update and stay compatible with its configured WSUS server needs.

Windows XP without any service packs need its AU client updated manually to be able to usethe selfupdate feature of the WSUS server. Pointing a Windows XPmachine to the public Windows Update site will accomplish this task.

Only the following Windows versions are compatible with WSUS: Windows XP any...