State of WSUS with Adam Marshall

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Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) was deprecated in Sept 2024 - when does it go away? Richard talks to Adam Marshall about how WSUS is still an essential service for Configuration Manager, included with Server 2025 and V.Next - it's not going anywhere! Adam talks about the use cases WSUS covers that no other update solution does, especially granular control of updates and offline scenarios. And while Microsoft is still feeding updates into the WSUS stack, no new code is going into the solution, making it hard to maintain. That is why Adam has been building WAM - WSUS Automated Maintenance. The stack includes free and paid tools, and all of them make your WSUS life easier!

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Recorded Aug 20, 2026

 

Adam Marshall is a ten year Microsoft MVP and the creator of WSUS Automated Maintenance, a tool that's quietly keeping WSUS servers sane all over the world meaning that thousands of IT pros sleep better at night, even if they don't know why. He's worked across the entire IT stack, from on prem to cloud, security to deployment, giving him a broad and very real world view of how systems behave when they're supposed to behave... and when they don't. Adam has a knack for taking the messy, complicated parts of Windows Update and making them simple enough that admins stop yelling at their screens.
 

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