A minimum of 200 words is required for each discussion question, and they must be your own words. Including figures and quotes is value-added, but they will not count against your 200 word requirement. Be sure to examine the discussion grading rubric.
Discussion Question 1:
Describe a role that WSUS and Windows Defender play in securing a Windows Network Infrastructure. What should be the policy be to keep the nodes on your network updated with the latest security updates?
Discussion Question 2:
Describe in detail some of the aspects of DHCP related to Windows Server 2016 including leases, scopes, and commands, etc. Explain how DHCP is installed and configured on Windows Server 2016.
Respond in your own words your opinion or add on, to the following response with 1 paragraph or more:
Response 1
WSUS is Windows Server Update Services and is a Microsoft provided program that will auto-update systems on a network for users throughout the network without having to go to each machine individually and manually updating them. It has many options to customize the update for the company for when the update is to happen. Windows Defender is a security program that Windows offers on all windows system. It is able to be customized with the option to allow certain programs to run on specified user accounts and not to run on others. Windows Defender is also able to be configured with specified rules for what specific programs to look for when scanning.
Policy that should be used to keep the network up to date when using Windows Defender and WSUS are allowing automatic updates on the network so that the security is up to date. Another option to run is the enabling of the delay restart, as this will tell a user they have 15 minutes before the system will restart the machine and it cannot be delayed or set the specified time that will elapse before the restart happens. (Coreyp-At-Msft, n.d.) This may seem cruel if a user is working on a big file but it guarantees that a user cannot postpone an update indefinitely.