Transcript Server Manager Integration PowerShell Support Enhanced Security Things people forget about WSUS.

Server Manager Integration
PowerShell Support
Enhanced Security
Things people forget about WSUS
Updating Run
kick-off
CAU
Windows
Update or
WSUS
...
Draining
the node
Node 1
Windows
Server failover
cluster
.
.
.
Node n
Resuming
& Failback
Cluster-Aware
Updating
GUI
Cluster-Aware Updating Windows
PowerShell cmdlets
Node
workflows
.
.
Cross-workflow
coordination
business logic
Cluster
workflows
Exception
workflows
Failover
Cluster
Windows Update
Agent (WUA)
Windows
Update/Microsoft
Update (WU/MU)
Windows Server
Update Services
(WSUS)
Windows Installer
Component
based Servicing
APIs/CLIs….
CAU is about update orchestration across the cluster
Good News: None
of these is
changing with
CAU!
CAU Update
Coordinator
Node 1
Node 2
Failover Cluster
Node 3
Node 4
Node 1
CAU Update
Coordinator
Node 2
Failover Cluster
Node 3
Node 4
Cmdlet Name
E2E data center
provisioning
workflows
Multi-cluster “Patch
Tuesday” workflows
Add-CauClusterRole
Invoke-CauRun
Cluster-Aware Updating
(CAU) PS cmdlets
Set-CauClusterRole UpdateNow
Service Desk and other
ITIL automation
workflows
Get-CauReport
Export-CauReport
Check out the PS cmdlet help reference for all other CAU cmdlets.
What it does
Adds the the self-updating
functionality to a cluster
(supports prestaging)
Installs the applicable
updates on each cluster
node (remote-updating
only)
Installation (self-updating
only)
Retrieve the report for one
or more updating runs
Export the report in html
or csv formats, for one or
more Updating Runs
“Update
Coordinator”
Windows Server
2012 computer
Cluster-Aware Updating
(CAU) core
Get-CauPlugin
Register-CauPlugin
Unregister-CauPlugin
CAU Plug-in API
Windows
Update
Plug-in
Hotfix Plugin
Custom 3rd
Party
Plug-in
Cluster Node
Cluster Node
Clustered RoleCluster Node
Custom
SMB CA File Server
3rd Party
SMB CA File Server
tool
Clustering
Clustering
Clustering
CAU WMIv2
Provider
CAU WMIv2
Provider
CAU WMIv2
Provider
WUA
WUA
WUA
http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/hh418084(VS.85).aspx
Windows
Server 2012
Failover
Cluster
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Clu
ster-Aware-Updating-6a8854c9
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134213
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852349.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29015
http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/hh831694.aspx
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=237675
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/05/17/starting
-with-cluster-aware-updating-self-updating.aspx