And that’s it ! Server is patched.Īnother way to check for updates and install them is to use a tool like Core Configurator for 2008 R2 or Corefig for Windows server 2012/R2. Also, you can choose to revoke the operation and not install any updates, install just a single one or install all.Īfter all the updates were installed you will be asked to reboot the server, so click Yes on the message box button to do so. It’s up to you.Ĭhecking for updates will take a few minutes and at the end you will be presented will all the available updates that apply to the server. If you want to check only for recommended updates go ahead and press R, but I I usually go for all. This will open another window where you need to chose what type of updates you want the tool to check for.
Right now we are interested to just update the server, so press 6 then Enter. Patching the core edition of Windows server can be done in multiple ways, and the most popular one is using the built-in server configuration menu.īy typing sconfig in the command prompt it will open the menu where you can do a lot of server configurations. And you do this from a single computer, your technician computer, but there are networks out there that have just a few servers, and some of them are installed without a GUI, and now the patching process just got a little bit complicated.
In a domain environment you can build up a WSUS server in a couple of minutes then use Group Policy to configure the clients to get all the patches from the WSUS server. You like server core, I know, I like it to sometimes, especially when there is a domain environment present and you can centralize everything.