Hi there,

I am looking for information of the following:

Why pick WSUS 2012 than 2008 R2?

If other nodes are WSUS 2008 R2, can it connect to WSUS 2012?

Thanks in advance.

technically you can mix WSUS versions for upstream/downstream activities and they should work, whether it's supported or not is something I don't really know.

in my opinion WSUS 2012/R2 offers just the built-in powershell cmdlets which is not there in WSUS 3.0 SP2. that's really the only thing that I find different. the rest of the product seems to be much of the same, maybe slightly better security

• Proposed as answer by Steven_Lee0510Microsoft contingent staff, Moderator 4 hours 57 minutes ago

Hi,

WSUS 3.0 SP2 needs update KB2734608 to provide updates for Windows8/Windows server 2012 and later.

WSUS v6.2 support them by default.

Best Regards.