Microsoft to Abandon Windows Server Update Services, Users Advised to Migrate

TapTechNews September 24th news, Microsoft product manager Nir Froimovici posted and announced that Microsoft is about to abandon the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) enterprise update management tool, and will no longer develop new functions for this application in the future.

According to Microsoft's plan, they will stop developing this tool starting from Windows Server 2025, but still retain security updates. Microsoft suggests that users migrate to cloud tools, such as Windows Autopatch, Microsoft Intune, Azure Update Manager, etc.

TapTechNews learned that Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services tool was launched in 2005, which allows IT administrators to batch install update patches for computers.