I’m running WSUS 3.0 SP2, and it really helps to not only track the update status of my machines, but also because we’re only on a DSL connection, and the update caching is a lifesaver. My main complaint with WSUS, though, is the update filtering.

In WSUS, you can tell it what products you want to get updates for, what classification (driver, critical update, service pack, etc…), and even whether to auto-approve them or not, but for some unknown reason, WSUS doesn’t let you specify the damn architecture that you want.

Our organization doesn’t have any Intanium hardware – why doesn’t WSUS let me specifically block that architecture? I only want x86 and x86_64 updates. Is that so hard? Instead, my auto-approve rules happily let those updates download, and then sit and take up space until I run the cleanup wizard.

Come on, Microsoft. Think this one through, please? Maybe introduce it in the 4.0 update?