Windows 10: Windows 10’s update heads to WSUS testers ahead of release

Officially called Windows 10 version 2004, the next major version of Microsoft’s desktop OS is slated to launch in April. The feature update began rolling out to all Windows Insiders last year and the update is now available for testers in WSUS.

According to Microsoft, IT admins and enterprises can now distribute Windows 10’s 20H1 update through Windows Update Server Services (WSUS) and prepare for the public rollout. Win10 version 2004 will show up in organizations that have added Windows Pre-Release WSUS catalog.

This is yet another confirmation that the tech giant is making good progress on Windows 10 version 2004 ahead of its public rollout in April/May.

Based on the feedback from IT admins and other testers, Microsoft will decide the launch date of 20H1 update. Although the update is almost done, Microsoft plans to service it with cumulative updates for another one month to ensure quality.

The ISOs of the update are also available but Microsoft has yet to make the feature update available for Insiders on the Release Preview ring, which is the final step in the updates-testing process.

The update was reportedly finalized in December and Microsoft is now testing it to ensure its quality before the official launch.

Windows 10 20H1 is a huge release with multiple new features and improvements. For example, Windows Search is getting a new algorithm to address problems with excessive disk and processor usage, which some users have experienced in the past.

In theory, Windows Search can now detect excessive disk usage and other performance issues and throttle search indexing activity.

Microsoft will improve Windows 10 search in other ways too. In 20H1, Windows Search has been updated to be more intelligent and find your files or folders even when you made spelling mistakes in the search query.

Similarly, Microsoft is introducing Cloud Recovery, a new Cortana experience, and also updating Task Manager with disk type and GPU temperature options.

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• Overall performance has increased markedly.
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Source: Dailytech

 

The WSUS support thread

This thread is for all things WSUS (Windows Server Update Services). Discussion, installation questions, problems all go here.

What is WSUS? It's basically a big file cache for all your Windows/Microsoft updates, so all your updates are only ever downloaded over the internet once. Instead of getting your updates directly from Microsoft whenever you reinstall your operating system, you point Windows to your local WSUS server instead. This makes downloading the multi-gigabytes of updates way faster using your internal network and also saves your internet bandwidth, which is often metered and limited.

Note that it requires Windows Server to run. I recommend running the latest Server 2008 R2 for performance, stability and security, if you can. This is a 64-bit only OS. And yes, the server can update from it's own WSUS server too. *Cool

I've got links to a few resources below and I'll be adding more goodness to this post and the next one, as people make useful contributions to this thread.

Some WSUS resources to get you started:

The manual: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939796(WS.10).aspx

WSUS home: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx

WSUS forum: Technet forums - WSUS

WSUS wiki: www.wsuswiki.com


POINTING WINDOWS TO THE WSUS SERVER

Note that this procedure is all you have to do on Vista and 7. XP requires a little extra and the whole update process isn't as transparent or efficient.

- Click the Orb at the bottom left of the desktop aka 'Start' button
- In the search field enter GPEDIT.MSC
- In the Local Group Policy Editor (LGPE) console that appears, navigate to: Computer configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
- Double click the Specify Intranet Microsoft update service location Group Policy setting. Note that Not Configured is showing in the State column






- The dialog box opens. Note that the Not Configured radio button is selected






- Enter the server details, by clicking the Enabled radio button and entering the same details in both Options fields. The server's name is the standard Windows name. My server is called afterburner *Smile






- Click OK. The main LGPE window now looks like below. Note that Enabled is now showing in the State column.





- Close the LGPE window

- Open the Windows Update window. It should now show You receive updates: Managed by your system administrator





Now, whenever you check for updates, Windows will access your WSUS server instead of looking over the internet to Microsoft's servers.
If you want to change it back at an time, simply change the Group Policy setting back to Not Configured.

 

Microsoft publishing pre-release Windows 10 feature updates to WSUS Insider

Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...US/ba-p/845054