1.7 Versioning and Capability Negotiation

 

This document covers versioning issues in the following areas.

Supported Transports: This protocol is implemented on top of HTTP and HTTPS, as specified in section 2.1. The protocol supports the use of either SOAP 1.2 ([SOAP1.2-1/2003] and [SOAP1.2-2/2003]) or SOAP 1.1 ([SOAP1.1]). This configuration option has to match on both ends of the communication, and is not negotiated within the protocol.

Protocol Versions: There are six versions of this protocol, as shown in the following table.<2>

Protocol version

WSUS version implementing this protocol version

Number of update languages supported (see section 2.2.4.4)

Perform reporting data synchronization (see section 3.2.5)

1.1

WSUS 2.0

63

No

1.2

WSUS 2.0 SP1

511

No

1.3

WSUS 3.0

511

Yes

1.6

WSUS 3.0 SP1

511

Yes

1.8

WSUS 3.0 SP2

511

Yes

1.20

WSUS 10.0

511

Yes