Windows Home Server 2011 : Patching Home Computers with WSUS - Synchronizing Updates

If you elected to run the initial synchronization using the Windows Server Update Services Configuration Wizard, the sync begins immediately. To monitor the progress of the initial sync, select Start, Administrative Tools, Windows Server Update Services, open the Update Services, SERVER branch (where SERVER is the name of your Windows Home Server computer), click Synchronizations, and then click the running sync. (If you didn’t ask the wizard to launch the initial sync automatically, you can start the sync yourself by clicking Synchronize Now in the Actions pane.) As you can see in Figure 1, the Update Services snap-in shows you the status of the sync and the sync progress.

Figure 1. Open Update Services, SERVER, Synchronizations to monitor the progress of a running sync.

Once the sync is complete, WSUS displays the number of updates available, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2. When the sync is complete, you see the number of available updates.

If you want to make changes to the way WSUS synchronizes updates, click Options, and then click Synchronization Schedule. You can then use the Synchronization Schedule dialog box  to choose a manual sync or to set up a schedule for an automatic sync.