Microsoft has announced some important changes coming to Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The company detailed in a blog post that customers will now
I can report synchronization still works from MS servers. This appears to be only when you want to import standalone patches or patches that will not come down from the sync.
That's what I am wondering as well. What's the purpose of this? This makes it sound like it's making things easier but not giving details as to why and what this solves.
The school I helped administrating did the same quite recently. I am so glad that we don't have to spend time with such WSUS workarounds from Microsoft.
We now manage feature updates by specifying the target Windows build via GPO.
That's enough for our needs and works great to ensure that all computers use the same feature update and the latest of all other updates.
Luckily that's the only place I have to deal with Microsoft / Windows at the moment.