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WSUS drivers supersedence
I have added the driver classification in wsus and now i have 100k driver updates. The supersedence is not specified so i can't easily decline old updates. I see a lot of duplicate versions for the ...
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WSUS WUServerURL not updating in registry (Group Policy)
I've just finished setting up a WSUS server to manage our Windows Updates.
Sadly, our previous tech guy set up the WSUS server on our primary domain controller and set up the group policy to point to ...
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WSUS and Delivery Optimization disable
Windows 10 clients are downloading a lot of the updates from the internet instead of the WSUS server.
The WSUS itself is configured correctly, the clients are also reporting all to the WSUS servers.
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Windows update error code 8000FFFF
We are using WSUS for updates. Last week I pushed out 2019-01 Monthly Security roll up for servers and desktops. Almost 1/3 systems had update failure with the same error code 8000FFFF, "Windows ...
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WSUS cleanup with SQL Management Studio
So I have an upstream WSUS server which never ran the cleanup wizard. The content folder is around 800GB and there were also a lot of unneeded product categories enabled including drivers.
As a first ...
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Diagnose WSUS "not applicable" update
I have published a custom .msi application package to WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2 using WSUS Package Publisher. The update is approved for a group of computers, some of which install said update ...
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Preventing Windows Server 2012 from adding default route
I have a WSUS server on a machine with 4 NIC ports. I have added a permanent route which "most of the time" forces the WSUS to use the desired NIC to get updates from Microsoft. (route -p add 0.0.0.0 ...
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Windows10 not able to download update from WSUS
W10 client Updatelogs:
2018. 09. 03 14:37:18.8871861 3044 3312 Misc Got WSUS Client/Server URL: http://xxx-wsus.xxxx.local:8530/ClientWebService/client.asmx""
2018. 09. 03 14:37:18....
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WSUS installation user
I am currently in the process of installing and configuring a WSUS server for my company's local network, I have one doubt though regarding the installation process. I've not been able to find ...
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Windows Internal Database missing on Server 2012 R2
I had to reinstall WSUS, so I removed WSUS and reinstalled it, then WID service could not start, so I removed WSUS again and deleted "WID" service.
Now when I re-install WSUS it says WID is installed,...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard WSUS appears to limit to exactly 100 clients
I found information on Stack Overflow about this issue, though the number of clients was 12, there. Read Here. However, despite the fact that I don't suspect duplicate SUSClientIDs, I ran the ...
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WSUS stuck at 98%
so I was trying to deploy a test update from my WSUS (upstream server) to one of my pc's (both are VMs) and as per checking, it was stuck (Installed 98%) for almost a day now. Now, I've checked ...
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Spectre/Meltdown Patches not offered through WSUS
So we have an environment with machines running Server 2008r2, 2012r2, and 2016 (the majority are running 2012r2). All the server updates are managed by a WSUS server running 2012r2 (it patches ...
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WSUS Error 8000FFFF
Two issues with our WSUS
Some of our Servers (2008r2/2012r2) and Win 7 got error 8000FFFF when installing security updates from WSUS. For most of servers and desktops are just working fine.
From ...
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How often should a WSUS server be rebooted?
I've not been able to find info on this one. All my searches come up with info on rebooting the servers or computers that get their updates from the WSUS server, but not rebooting the WSUS server ...
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Passing Remote Client IP to WSUS Server behind Reverse Proxy Server
We have an internet facing WSUS server for our remote windows clients (laptops, remote users, etc..). As an extra layer of protection, we have placed the WSUS server behind a Reverse Proxy server ...
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Can GPO prevent WSUS post install tasks?
Just rebuilt my WSUS Server 2012 R2 x64 from a VLSC disc. Added drivers and then joined the server to the domain. I then tried to install WSUS. I was able to add the feature. Then during post install ...
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Setting Windows Update settings for WSUS server
What is the typical configuration for Windows Update on the server that hosts WSUS? Do you normally point it to itself at the target WSUS server or do you let it pull updates from Microsoft Update at ...
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Reinstallling WSUS After full removal failure
I am running 2 servers on Windows Server 2012 R2. One of them is running a WSUS Server. The server running the WSUS server can search for updates and it Shows it needs to download and install updates. ...
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WSUS Post-Installation error | Windows Server 2012 R2
I did a standard WSUS installation, now I'm trying to do the post-installation, but it's kept failing, I'm the administrator of the machine, and I've tried to do the installation again with a domain ...
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How to stop server 2012R2 and 2008R2 from rebooting after updates auto installed
Is there a way to stop server2008R2 / 2012r2 from rebooting after updates auto-installed? I need to manually reboot the servers
I have GPO setup to download and auto-install for updates. and no ...
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No recent Windows updates showing as applicable in WSUS
I have setup a WSUS server on my domain, and have noticed that the most recent 'needed' updates release date was from August 2016.
The clients on my domain are all running Windows 2012 R2, and I ...
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WSUS flooded the disk space
Unfortunatley the silly Me configured to synchronize Windows Server Update Service with all Windows Products. What could possibly go wrong...
Now the disk space is full. I just checked the products ...
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Canceling WSUS download process
I recently deployed a WSUS role to a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. Test operation was successful and it downloaded and distributed a modest selection of updates.
Today, I added a few products to my ...
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How To Patch Server running WSUS Without Shooting Yourself In The Foot
I'm starting to use WSUS for patch management and I'm a little light in the experience department. Our requirements are simple in that we want to make sure every server we have is up, on and ready ...
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Migrate WSUS from 2003 to 2012 R2 core
We have WSUS 3.2 running on Windows Server 2003 (with SP2), and we're looking to migrate to Windows Server Core 2012 R2. I've done a fair amount of internet searching, and all of the results I found ...
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Windows Update download from WSUS stuck at 0 percent
I'm struggling with update deployment from WSUS server (2012 R2) to our client computers and can't find solution on Google so I'm here. For the first time.
The problem occurs only on some hosts and ...
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WSUS Windows 10 Updates not working
I know this is a well known issue, but I've tried everything I can find online and I still can't get 1607 or 1703 to deploy to my Windows 10 clients using WSUS on Server 2012 R2. Originally I ...
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Suppress windows 'updates are available' notification on server 2012
In our test environment, we approve updates in WSUS and all machine in the test OU are set to automatically download and notify to install these updates. The scheduled install time is Saturday night, ...
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WSUS and issues pushing Win 10 1703 Update and Win 7 Upgrades
I am in the process of testing roll outs of Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrades using WSUS, as well as rolling out the creators update to our Windows 10 machines. I am testing with three machines - a ...
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What will happen if disk space is exhausted on a WSUS server?
Currently, I have a WSUS role installed on Windows Server 2012 R2. It downloads updates to a 500GB disk. The size of updates that it will download is more than the disk space, so what will happen ...
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WSUS Update Fails with Error Code 0x80244018
I am currently operating a WSUS server on a MS 2012 R2 machine. It is supposed to update all computers in an enterprise network.
At the moment I am facing the problem that only some computers and ...
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WSUS update directory is gone. Can I just create a new directory?
I had my WSUS updates folder on my D: which is now gone. If I can't get it back can I just create a new directory and then just re download the updates? I am using the default WID DB so I'm not sure ...
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WSUS corrupted: Can't uninstall, repair, or remove (Error 0x800f0831)
Have a single server site, running Windows 2012 R2
They had a long power cut, and the server uncleanly shut down when the UPS gave out.
We had a few other programs and database issues, but I've ...
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Can't access WSUS console from local system; can access it from another host?
I have a WSUS server running on Server 2012 R2, update services 3.2.7600.226. From Server Manager, I see that WSUS has an error, and specifically when I open the errors I see "The DSS Authentication ...
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Can I use a proxy/firewall to re-direct Windows Update agent to WSUS instead of WU, without reconfiguring the client?
I work in a computer service company and we have several clients connected to the internal network and servers, including one WSUS server.
Now, we have entered a GPO that forces the client to perform ...
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0x8024401c on all new WSUS clients
I keep getting the error 0x8024401c on all new clients connecting to WSUS. (Only Windows 10 and Server 2016)
According to Google, this error results to "WU_E_PT_HTTP_STATUS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT" but I can ...
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WSUS/Windows Update Inconsistency
I have a new WSUS server setup (Windows Server 2012 R2) and I'm using my workstation and a Windows 7 VM for testing. The initial test for my Windows 7 VM worked fine but now I am seeing some major ...
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WSUS Multi-level approvals with upstream (USS) and downstream servers (DSS)
I'm currently designing a new WSUS environment where we are looking to have multi level approvals.
We want to have a top level WSUS where the security team approves updates which then sync to ...
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Approve WSUS Updates on WSUS Replicas using Powershell
we have 3 WSUS Replica Servers and one central server the replicas are connected to. From the central server we are managing the 3 replicas. All Clients are only connected to the replicas.
I am ...
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Server 2012 R2 stuck checking for updates from WSUS server
I have a 2012 R2 WSUS server, and many 2012 R2 clients.
One of my servers only, completed installing a batch of updates, and now upon every check for updates, it gets stuck "Checking for updates".
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SCCM Update Storage - Large and duplicated?
Can anyone help me understand why my Update Group Storage is so large? I have enabled dedupe on the volume as a quick fix. Why are my updates making copies every time my update group runs? ...
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How to force BITS to download WSUS updates in foreground in Win Server 2012?
As you know, WSUS use BITS for downloading its updates. Unfortunately BITS downloads these updates in background and use remained bandwidth of server. This is not desirable in my situation that want ...
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How to use Powershell to see status of an update in server?
I made an update server using WSUS 6.3 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. I want to see the status of an update (e.g: KB3035583) using powershell. I know there are some way to do that but I don't ...
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Should WSUS show a server as requiring an update that has been approved for removal?
I have marked an update in WSUS for removal from all machines.
After the update has been removed from the machines, in WSUS they still show that they require 1 update. When checking what the update ...
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Do all nodes in a Windows Cluster need to use the same WSUS Server when using Cluster Aware Updating?
In the technet article for Cluster Aware Updating best practices, it states "All cluster nodes should be uniformly configured to use the same update source, for example, a WSUS server, Windows Update, ...
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WSUS Feature Update Fails Error 0x80244019
I applied the hotfix KB3095113 to WSUS in Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard to enable feature updates in Windows 10 1511. Updates began showing up. I approved the new version of windows (1607) and it ...
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WSUS server filter and approved required updates
I am trying to write a PowerShell script for filtering the updates which will contain only 2008 R2 and ignore the declined one and then approve the filtered result. I was able to get the filtered list ...
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WSUS Too many "not applicable" updates. Is this normal?
I have just implemented WSUS in production for the first time.
Everything is working fine, but the info reported by the Update Service Manager is a bit unintuitive.
When i check on a computers status ...
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Deleted updates still appear in WSUS console
I have set up a WSUS server and set it to download updates from microsoft.com. Later I decided I don't need all the updates I have previously selected and since I couldn't find a "delete" button I ...
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