Help setting up WSUS deployment from scratch

Posted by thtpopunkid@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 65 comments

Our current WSUS server has many issues. Constant crashing when running Cleanup wizard, and cant even run a check for updates as it crashes there as well. I suspect it is just so bloated with updates not getting cleared properly. Also it is telling me that most of the RAM is getting used for sqlservr. We create our servers in VMWare. I would be using server 2019. I would like to know the best specs to use for this vm and also I will be using a second drive for wsus updates. The current one currently just fills up with the updates. I just would like some help creating this new environment from scratch. Any other questions just comment below and I will try my best to answer them.