I have a WSUS Server on a virtualized Windows Server 2008 R2. My server its not connected to the internet directly so I use a upstream corporative server for the updates download. This other server its connected with windows update service. First of all when I tried to sync my WSUS server with the corporative one I only achieve a 16% of sycn and that means more than 11000 patches. My internet connection is very slow .. only 1 Mbps for all corporative services … email … internet … chat. So I figured that I could ask the network administrator of the WSUS server connected to windows update for his wsuscontent folder. It weights around 300 GB. Impossible for me to download. Can I just copy/replace my wsuscontent folder or do I need to do another thing? And the other thing is: Can I do the same with the sync? There is some file I can copy and replace in my server in order to just update the latest entries in this catalog. I don't know if I explained the problem clearly enough feel free to ask me anything. Thanks in advance.
How to update the WSUS server content folder manually
windows-server-2008wsuswsus-offline
Best Answer
Yes, see this link: How to Synchronize Updates Using Export and Import
While it is technically talking about SCCM and WSUS, it will still work with just a WSUS server.
After it is synced, you can then point your downstream WSUS server to the parent to stay in sync going forward.
Be aware though that your 1Mbps bottleneck may mean that you would be better off just managing approvals from WSUS and configuring it to have the clients pull from Windows Update for the actual downloads.