Pointing AD to WSUS 3.0 - does it require port number?

[Ellis]

When setting AD to point all clients to WSUS intranet location, does it
require the port number after the intranet server location of is the server
name enough?

http://server:3434 or http://server ??

[Simon]

It shouldn't do, unless you specified a particular port number when
installing IIS. Check IIS to see what port number the updateservices website
is using. Also, try http://server and see what happens, clients should start
connecting within a few to 30 minutes.

[chriske911]

if you have a default site as well as sus you have to set it on another
port
so the correct url would be http://susserver:3434

[sespress]

OK You WILL need to use the port if the WSUS settings page shows "port number" is anything other than 80. IF it is, then make sure you use http://servername:portnumber. Otherwise nothing will happen. As far as I can tell you can bypass that 30 minute marker after updating the GPO on the server, run "gpupdate /force" if you use Windows 2008 then make sure to launch the cmd prompt "as administrator". After it runs on one of the domain controllers. then run it on the others and the clients, same command. They should start talking in a few moments rather than an hour.