Cluster-Aware Updating

Cluster-Aware Updating
i am reading about Cluster-Aware Updating and i installed on my hyper failover cluster .
Till now i have some questions ....
why should i use Cluster-Aware Updating although i have wsus installed in my enviroment ?????
can we said Cluster-Aware Updating is replacment of WSUS ?
i installed Cluster-Aware Updating but till now when i click on ( preview updates for this cluster ) i didnt anymore updates .
please need help in this matter .
thanks

Hi Moonlight2000,
Cluster-Aware Updating is not a replacement for WSUS: it's the feature that helps update all cluster nodes automatically - you need setting up updating just for the cluster itself, not for each of its nodes. Otherwise you would need to update each
node one by one and it would be you who's responsible for updating each node exactly in the same manner as others.
Regards,
Michael
Thanks for all your help
but still have one issue :
i installed Cluster-Aware Updating but till now when i click on ( preview updates for this cluster
) i didnt anymore updates .
how can i ensure am installed CAU correctly ?
how can i know from where CAU takes updates from wsus or Microsoft update ?
thanks

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