Software Update Services (SUS) Limitations

By Mohammed Athif Khaleel, April 3rd, 2005 Posted in Software Update Services. Subscribe to our RSS Feed

Like any piece of software, SUS Server does have some limitations that you should be aware of:

SUS only distributes critical patches - it will not download any driver updates.

SUS only delivers patches for the Windows 2000, XP and 2003 operating systems. It will never download patches for Windows 9x and Windows NT 4

SUS will not deliver patches for Office, ISA, SQL, and Exchange.

SUS will not deliver patches for Non-Microsoft operating systems.

With SUS you cannot roll out patches from the clients, you can only Un-approve, which will restrict future installations, but it will not un-install those from the clients.

SUS lacks reporting features, its tough to know the patches installed at the clients.

With SUS you cannot target the clients; it’s automatically targeted to all those computers configured with AU for local SUS.

Reboots can affect logged in users, there is no way to say NO if a patch requires a reboot.

AU Client will check in SUS Server for Approved patches at a random time, 17-22 hours and it’s not possible to increase/decrease this time.

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