Today we're super pleased to announce the release of our first public beta for WSUS 3.0. Pre-ceeded by a private TAP beta, beta 2 went live today, August 14th at 9:30 PDT. Windows Server Update Services 3.0 delivers new features enabling administrators...

WSUS has this great feature which can be used to manage your WSUS server from a Windows XP or Vista machine. WSUS3 comes up with this new concept of *console only* install. If you want to use this feature, you need to specify "CONSOLE_INSTALL...

It'll help with bugs/questions if we all use the same terminology, so I thought I'd run down a few of the features in the UI. I've posted this in the beta newsgroup as well for easy reference. MMC hosts "Snap-ins" within a "Console." You can run MMC...

Take full advantage of Remote Console functionality of WSUS3 UI, by managing all your WSUS Servers from the same MMC console window. You won't need to TS to another machine to manage the WSUS server on that machine. Follow these simple steps...

Developers do the grunt work, then let the PMs get all the glory with fancy well-formatted announcements. Ah well. Expect something fancier soon, but in the meantime check out: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wus/default.mspx I've read...

Update for Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2: Update to Exchange Server 2003 SP2 During a release audit Microsoft discovered that a non-final version of the Exchange Service Pack 2 component had been included. This update corrects the version...

I got started on doing a developer's blog a while back, and looked forward to giving folks a little more insight into the product from the dev's point of view. I'm responsible for both UI and now Setup - so life has been busier than when I started those...