{"id":1412,"date":"2026-08-14T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:40:00","slug":"windows-server-update-services-wsus-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) best practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here a list of recommended settings to be changed in IIS Application Pool (<strong>WsusPool<\/strong>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Setting name<\/th><th>Value<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Queue Length<\/td><td><strong>2000<\/strong>&nbsp;(up from default of 1000)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Idle Time-out (minutes)<\/td><td><strong>0<\/strong>&nbsp;(down from the default of 20)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ping Enabled<\/td><td><strong>False<\/strong>&nbsp;(from default of True)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Private Memory Limit (KB)<\/td><td><strong>0<\/strong>&nbsp;(unlimited, up from the default of 1,843,200 KB)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Regular Time Interval (minutes)<\/td><td><strong>0<\/strong>&nbsp;(to prevent a recycle, and modified from the default of 1740)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/troubleshoot\/mem\/configmgr\/update-management\/windows-server-update-services-best-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/troubleshoot\/mem\/configmgr\/update-management\/windows-server-update-services-best-practices<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here a list of recommended settings to be changed in IIS Application Pool (WsusPool): Setting name Value Queue Length 2000&nbsp;(up from default of 1000) Idle Time-out (minutes) 0&nbsp;(down from the default of 20) Ping Enabled False&nbsp;(from default of True) Private Memory Limit (KB) 0&nbsp;(unlimited, up from the default of 1,843,200 KB) Regular Time Interval (minutes) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}