Questions tagged [windows-update]
An update service for Microsoft operating systems, server products, Office applications, Windows Defender, and Internet Explorer. It provides security updates, service packs, roll-ups, feature packs, and malware protection. The service is included in all versions of Windows since Windows 2000.
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Best way to fully update a new installed Windows?
I am wondering, what is the best way to automatically update a new installation of Windows (Windows 7)?
When I manually update a new install of Windows 7 SP1, I get about 45 updates. Installing ...
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Microsoft Windows - Install Updates And Restart (instead of Install and Shutdown)
I have a Windows box I would like to manage remotely. When I logged in this morning, the Start menu shows a ! next to the Shutdown button, notifying me there are updates to install. But the only ...
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How do to uninstall windows updates, from a prompt or PS in Hyper-V server?
I'm having an issue on my server when working with my VM guests, and I think its due to a recently installed update. What is the correct command to uninstall Windows Updates from either the command ...
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Windows Update not working on Windows 2012 R2 Standard
I recently inherited the management of a Windows 2012 server at a remote site.
I checked Windows Update and it has not been updating since March. When I tell Windows to check for updates, it acts ...
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How to install Windows Updates from command-line
Is it possible to install windows updates from the command-line? The graphical update tool doesn't seem to work so well in Windows 7. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't... My problem is that I ...
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Should you force a reboot after pushing out Windows updates?
I'm finding that most users ignore the "There are updates ready to be installed, click here to install" message that WSUS pushes out. Until now we haven't forced the install but I'm thinking about ...
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Building a WSUS server: where to start?
Rather than having all of my computers go out to the internet and download their Automatic Updates, I am seriously considering building a WSUS server. That is, a Windows Update server. I have read ...
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Windows Update 800F0922
I have a Windows Azure VM running Windows Server 2012 R2 that hasn't been able to install updates since April 2016. The "View update history" screen in the Control Panel lists hundreds of successive ...
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Should we be installing Windows Security updates? [closed]
I just RDP'd into one of my companies servers, was alerted to windows updates, so I click.
Then I see 62 high priority updates, with the last update (according to update history) was installed on ...
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Is there a safe way to cancel updates during windows shutdown [closed]
I have installed a new windows machine and configured windows update to automatically download updates.
I need to quickly reboot the machine and I forgot to click the fly out window that allows the ...
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Windows server 2016 Configuration Manager Client (5.00.8458.1000) fail
I have two fresh installs of Windows server 2016
Everytime I try to run Configuration Manager Client (5.00.8458.1000) i get an error
Configuration Manager Client (5.00.8458.1000) - Error ...
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Prevent Server Restart after Windows Updates
we have a number of servers in our office, as a small hosting company, and these servers are critical to business, ... web server, mail server, db server, etc.
On a semi-regular basis, when the ...
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How do you prevent wuauserv (Windows Update Service) from restarting?
Regarding:
net stop "windows update"
this works for a while but then the service starts again. What is restarting this service and how do I prevent it from doing so?
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Update windows no internet connection
I have a couple servers i will be adding to our production environment however I would like to get the latest updates. Only problem is the Vlan they are configured on does not have internet.
I could ...
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Can I change the update descriptions in WSUS?
On each Microsoft patch day, I have a pretty large amount of new updates I want to approve to my clients. But instead of 'Approve all updates and continue', I gather information on each update at its ...
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Issues with patching servers remotely using winrm and Microsoft.Update.Session
I have a network with windows 2003, 2008 and 2008r2 servers. I have a powershell script that I wrote to patch a local machine using the "Microsoft.Update" com objects. (Similar to Windows Update ...
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Disable update popup on Windows 2012 R2
We have started to deploy more Windows 2012 R2 servers on our network. When we log on to these servers (only admins log on to these servers), we are sometimes presented with a blue banner that says ...
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What host names and ports would need to be opened in a firewall to allow Windows Updates to work?
We have a set of public web servers behind a firewall we would like to be able to perform Windows Updates on, without giving them more access than they need.
Besides www.update.microsoft.com:443, ...
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What does the Windows XP EOL/EOS mean for a business and it's domain?
I am hoping someone can explain in simple terms, what it really means that windows XP will be end of life?
It looks like SP2 is already not being patched, but maybe SP3 is going to be patched up ...
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What is "preview of quality rollup"
Microsoft puts out different versions of rollups/patches monthly via WSUS. One really bizarre one is "Preview of quality rollup for .Net framework". Preview? WTF does that mean? It appears to be an ...
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Is there the full list of return codes for "wusa.exe"?
Is there the full list of return codes for "wusa.exe"?
I guess that Windows System Error Codes are applicable here.
http://www.hiteksoftware.com/knowledge/articles/049.htm
But sometimes I need to ...
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Centralized Windows/Mac Patch Management that is easy to use
I'm looking for advice on what patch management solutions you would recommend based upon your experience. I'm also looking for which ones you would not recommend based upon your experience.
We have ...
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Updating Hyper-V Server 2012 (free version)
I am setting up a cluster of Hyper-V Server 2012 machines. I've got remote access to the machines via windows 8 and the various remote management consoles.
I can't seem to figure out how to run '...
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Error code 80244019 while installing Windows Update
I'm posting this to hopefully helpout anyone else who might encounter this.
I have a Win2008r2 domain, and my clients decided to stop talking to the WSUS server. All indications were that they were ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 update stuck after restart at 9%
I installed windows server 2012 R2 on a server with IIS, SQL, TFS and some other Microsoft products. After finished installation, I ran windows update which asked for restart to continue installation.
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Block specific Windows update hotfix
I'd like to leave Windows Automatic Updates enabled but block a specific patch from being installed that is causing us problems.
Is this possible? Anyone know how to do that?
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Howto initiate Windows Update on server core from a PS remote session?
When I am logged in via remote desktop on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Core machine I can trigger the windows update by running sconfig.cmd. This however fails when its getting called within a PS remote ...
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Do Windows/Automatic updates happen when a PC is sleeping/standby?
Mostly interested in doing it on some Win7 laptops, a lot of people seem to believe its not possible. However I can't find any definitive Microsoft documents detailing it either way:
This old ...
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What time of day does Microsoft Release patches on "Patch Tuesday"
I've tried my servers and they don't see the patches that Microsoft has released. Usually Windows Update automatically installs them on Wednesday, so it must be something late in the day -- yet I can'...
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Server 2008 stuck in reboot loop "Configuring Updates: Stage 3 of 3"
Our server performed some updates last night and this morning we came in to find it stuck in a boot -> "Applying System Configurations" -> "Configuring Updates: Stage 3 of 3. 0%" -> reboot loop.
Safe ...
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Force automatic restart even with users logged in after installation of updates on Windows 8.1 Professional
I want a Windows 8.1 Professional installation which is always running and accessed by users via RDP to install updates automatically and also reboot automatically if the updates require it, but this ...
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Number of important Windows Updates
For Microsoft Server OS's, is there a location in the registry or possibly WMI that stores the number of pending Important Updates?
My inventory software supports wmi and registry keys. Trying to see ...
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Windows Updates taking a long time to install
I manage a WSUS server for a large number of servers in a shared environment. Recently I noticed that despite the scheduled install time configured via the local gpo of many servers, they were not ...
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Disable or Uninstall Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Server KB890830 Automatic Maintenance
We have a script that declines KB890830 updates for our on-premise Windows Update Server, but we recently found someone approved one of the monthly updates before the script could run and the ...
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Is there a way to control where a windows update extracts temporary files?
Working on a vendor built system, we've realized that OS partition (C:) they created was rather small (38 GB). The object is to update Windows 2008 R2 to SP1. Several sources state that 8 GB is ...
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How do I disable "Restart your computer to finish installing updates" popup with GPO?
I've got some kiosk computers that are on a domain and permanently logged in, and receive updates for FEP through WSUS. This works great, except that occasionally, I get this dialog appearing in the ...
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ConfigMgr 2012 - How to automatically make updates available to computers without forcing them to be installed?
I'm using System Center Configuration Manager 2012 with the Software Update Point feature; however, in this environment patching has to be strictly manual, because server reboots need to be approved ...
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Windows Update: can't apply updates even as domain admin on Server 2008 R2
I open the Windows Update control panel, and it says "some settings are managed by your system administrator." Problem is, I'm logged in as a domain admin.
Tried so far:
Searched the output of ...
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Default Microsoft Windows Update Server
I'm in a corporate Windows environment, which has deployed its own WSUS server. The thing is, it seems to hardly ever be updated.
This means I don't get the latest updates for months. It's a worry ...
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Windows Update not working on Windows Server 2008 R2
The Windows Update screen comes up and I click on Download Updates. I then get the bar scrolling across the screen and it says Downloading Updates but the counts never increase (0 KB total, 0% ...
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Windows 2016 updates and Active Hours
With the goal of putting it in more production boxes, I'm testing Windows 2016 update behavior. I've run sconfig to select "DownloadOnly" in "Windows Update Setting" and I configured "Active Hours" ...
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WSUS not making available all updates
I have recently installed WSUS (v3.2.7600.226) on a Windows 2008 Std server, and configured 4 test PCs to connect to it through group policy. They are detected by WSUS, and the PCs are downloading ...
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Skype For Business WSUS Server 2012
Please forgive me if I don't provide all of the required info for anyone looking to help out, but I'm a junior sys admin just getting started with using and administering WSUS on Server 2012. ...
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Run specific script after every Windows Update
Is there a way to run a specific script each time Windows update completes (i.e., after reboot or after an update that doesn't require a reboot)?
My application is suffering from MSCOMCTL.OCX updates,...
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Windows Update on Server Core 2012
I've been searching for awhile and have yet to find the answer to my question on exactly how windows update works with Server Core 2012. I have a couple of domain controllers i just brought online and ...
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Automatically install Microsoft Update utility
I work in an environment with a variety of hardware, so we usually use automated installs and group policy instead of drive imaging for deployment of Windows 7. One step we always have to do manually ...
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Should clients be able to access ctldl.windowsupdate.com when using WSUS?
We changed some policies on our webfilter and now we see that some clients are trying to access ctldl.windowsupdate.com but are being blocked.
Since we are using a WSUS server I was under the ...
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How to prevent Server rebooting upon log off when a restart is pending?
This issue is related to Windows Update forcing a restart when the last session logs off Server 2003. Updates have been installed and a restart is pending. Obviously this is problematic if the last ...
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What does wusa.exe return code 5 mean?
I'm trying to install powershell 4.0 on a server via chocolatey. It fails with:
[ERROR] [ERROR] Running wusa.exe with C:\Users\jdearing\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\Powershell4\Powershell4Install....
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How to determine the date and time of most recent successful Windows Update run on Windows Server 2016?
It appears that Microsoft removed this registry key in Server 2016.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\Results\Install
Does anyone know of an equivalent ...