Traffic Shaping MS Update Service

[workmentim]

Hi Meraki, 

We’re currently exploring ways to manage bandwidth usage more effectively, particularly for services like Microsoft Windows Update, and would like to understand if Meraki supports shaping traffic based on VLAN assignments.

This is the Scenario:

We have 100Mbps uplink with 49 users,

I want to allocate 30 to 50% of bandwidth to Microsoft service update 

I want this rule applied to a specific vlan only.

Could you kindly advise on the recommended approach or configuration steps for this? If there are any documentation links or best practices you could share, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

[alemabrahao]

You can create Group Policies in the Meraki Dashboard and assign them to specific VLANs.

These policies can include, Traffic shaping rules, Bandwidth limits and Application prioritization.

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Cross-Platform_Content/Creating_and_Applying...

[PhilipDAth]

Going in a different direction; you could use Intune or group policy to configure the update window.

[Brash]

For windows update, I'd suggest using other measures to manage distribution and load.
Eg. 
 - Use update rings or update windows

 - Use a local update server or built in delivery optimization

That said, to answer your question, you can't achieve exactly what you're after.

• You can apply traffic shaping rules targeting your clients (using group policies) and applying to Windows update traffic, however you can only set CoS or QoS lablels. You cannot use it to set WAN priority (essentially upstream bandwidth allocation)
• Otherwise you can use traffic shaping rules to set the WAN priority but you cannot split this out per application.

I highly recommend looking at the Meraki docs on Traffic Shaping, CoS, QoS and priority. There's also a bit of a summary in this post: Re: Prioritizing Traffic within Meraki Full Stack - The Meraki Community