Recently, Microsoft reiterated that WSUS will soon lose some of its existing functionality.
According to a new deprecation announcement, starting April 18, 2025, WSUS willstop synchronizingupdates for Windows drivers.
However, Microsoft warns that these downloads cannot be directly imported into WSUS.
Alternative methods will be required to keep drivers up-to-date outside the platform.
The company strongly encourages its customers to transition to cloud-based solutions such as Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopatch.
For resourceful administrators, there remains the option to integratecustom driver packagesinto their Windows images prior to deployment.
This decision is part of an ongoing trend where Microsoft removes long-standing features from its software and cloud services.
The extensivelist of deprecated featuresin Windows 11 is just the tip of the iceberg.
As the WSUS case clearly shows, no single customer is really safe from Microsoft’s chopping block.
