(And if you use a patch management solution that’s not on this list, feel free to mention it in the comments section below.) Patch My PC So, without further ado, here is a brief bird’s eye summary of some of the best of what’s available. Most of these third-party solutions were recommended to me by my colleagues, and if you’re presently unsatisfied with WSUS you may want to explore several of them to see if one of them can meet the needs of your specific environment. But rather than spend the rest of this article writing about what’s wrong with or missing from WSUS, I thought it might be helpful to share about some of the other patch management solutions out there that are available for keeping Windows patched. It can’t be used, for example, to patch Adobe software on your computers. While WSUS is a mature feature that has been around for some time now, as I’ve mentioned in the past not every Windows administrator is happy using it to control how their Windows machines are patched, plus it’s only useful for patching Windows operating systems and Microsoft applications like Microsoft Office. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a feature of the Windows Server platform that lets you manage the distribution of the software updates that are released through Microsoft Update to the Windows machines on your network.

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