1. Update Management in Windows Server 2012: Revealing Cluster-Aware Updating and the New Generation of WSUS Erin Chapple Partner Group Program Manager Microsoft Corporation Mallikarjun Chadalapaka Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation WSV322

3. Windows Server Update Services What’s new in Windows Server 2012

4. 1+ Million 60+ Million Double

9. demo Name Title Microsoft Corporation Installing and Managing WSUS using PowerShell

10. What is CAU? Context, Introduction, Install & Update Types

12. Windows Update (WU) Windows Windows Update Agent (WUA) Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) System Center SCCM 2012 SCVMM 2012 SCO (Orchestrator) 2012 3 rd Party Other Vendor Solutions Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU)

13. Updating Run kick-off Node n Resuming & Failback...... Node 1 Windows Server failover cluster... Windows Update or WSUS Draining the node CAU Apply updates on this cluster

14. Windows Update Agent (WUA) Windows Update/Microsoft Update (WU/MU) Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Windows Installer Component based Servicing APIs/CLIs…. Good News: None of these is changing with CAU! CAU is about update orchestration across the cluster

15. **GDR = General Distribution Release **QFE = Quick Fix Engineering (nickname for hotfix)

17. CAU Deep-dive Automation, Modes, Self- updating, Hotfix internals

18. Cluster-Aware Updating GUI Cluster-Aware Updating Windows PowerShell cmdlets Cross-workflow coordination business logic Cluster workflows Exception workflows. Node workflows Failover Cluster Run options

19. Node 2 Node 1 Node 4Node 3 CAU Update Coordinator Failover Cluster

20. **VCO= Virtual Computer Object

21. CAU Update Coordinator Node 2 Node 1 Node 4Node 3 Failover Cluster

22. Self-UpdatingRemote-Updating Try CAU & monitor what it does Cannot afford real-time attention Resilient Cluster updating Branch office scenarios Minimal Server Core without.Net or PS Richer progress updates as Run happens

24. CAU Hotfix Root Folder CAUHotfix_All Hotfixes applicable to all nodes Hotfixes applicable just to Extension Rules Folder Rules Extension Rules Folder Rules Hotfix Config File MySwUpdateType Special software updates

25. demo Mallikarjun Chadalapaka Senior Program Manager Continuous Availability with CAU

26. Windows Server 2012 File Server Cluster Node 1 Node 2 Cluster-Aware Updating Database Server SQL Database

27. Using & Extending Relating, Building on, and Extending, Deployment

28. Mid-market to Enterprise LOB applications Hyper-V, File Server, Replication, DFS-N, SQL clusters Impacts LOB SLAs, business-critical down time Self-Updating & Remote-Updating PS cmdlets Private Clouds and Hosting scenarios Hyper-V, File Server and SQL clusters Impacts customer SLAs, significant business impact Self-Updating & Remote-Updating PS cmdlets & GUI Branch-office and Small Business Cluster-in-a-box (CiB) appliances Long business disruption, with no local IT experts Self-Updating GUI Failover clusters in a typical deployment Downtime for updating cluster CAU usage fit CAU usage via

29. With CAU, I can: Update multiple clusters in parallel “Tap into” a Run in progress Deliver on my SLAs with Josh! Ted, Cluster administrator Josh, LOB app owner With CAU and CA workloads: No negotiation on planned downtime No updating-forced downtime No complex contingency planning

30. Multi-cluster “Patch Tuesday” workflows E2E data center provisioning workflows Service Desk and other ITIL automation workflows Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) PS cmdlets Cmdlet Name What it does Add-CauClusterRole Adds the the self-updating functionality to a cluster (supports prestaging) Invoke-CauRun Set-CauClusterRole - UpdateNow Installs the applicable updates on each cluster node (remote-updating only) Installation (self-updating only) Get-CauReport Retrieve the report for one or more updating runs Export-CauReport Export the report in html or csv formats, for one or more Updating Runs Check out the PS cmdlet help reference for all other CAU cmdlets.

31. Windows Server 2012 computer “Update Coordinator” Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) core Cluster Node WUA Clustering SMB CA File Server CAU WMIv2 Provider Cluster Node WUA Clustering SMB CA File Server CAU WMIv2 Provider Cluster Node WUA Clustering Clustered Role CAU WMIv2 Provider Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Custom 3rd Party tool Windows Update Plug-in Custom 3 rd Party Plug-in Custom 3 rd Party Plug-in Hotfix Plug- in CAU Plug-in API

37. Breakout Sessions (session codes and titles) WSV328, The Path to Continuous Availability with Windows Server 2012 WSV303 Windows Server 2012 High-Performance, Highly-Available Storage Using SMB WSV324 Building a Highly Available Failover Cluster Solution with Windows Server 2012 from the Ground UP How to Increase SQL Availability and Performance Using Window Server 2012 SMB 3.0 Solutions WSV310 Windows Server 2012: Cluster-in-a-Box, RDMA, and More WSV410 Continuously Available File Server: Under the Hood

38. Talk to our Experts at the TLC #TE(sessioncode) DOWNLOAD Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate microsoft.com/windowsserver Hands-On Labs DOWNLOAD Windows Azure Windowsazure.com/ teched

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