Here's an interesting issue recently discovered by Joe Tindale, one of our top WSUS Support Escalation Engineers out in North Carolina: ======== Issue: When trying to synchronize a WSUS 3.0 SP1 computer, it may not sync and progress may remain at 0%....

You're probably already well aware of Microsoft's CodePlex open source project hosting website but in case you're not, it's home to a ton of great tools and scripts including a virtual salad of awesome tools for managing and troubleshooting WSUS. ...

I just wanted to let you know about a couple issues we are seeing on our support team related to detection and install issues for MS10-090 ( KB2416400 ).  Please note that these are preliminary troubleshooting steps that we have found in our investigation...

You know how after you’ve been using WSUS for a while and you go into the admin console, then to the Synchronization node, you can end up waiting and waiting for the list to enumerate?  This is the list I’m talking about: Have you ever wished you...

Here's a great tip on an issue you may run into if your using WSUS and ConfigMgr 2007 for updates and defining settings via a Group Policy.  This one comes from Anjana Kaku Tyagi, a Support Engineer in our Manageability group: ======== Issue: While...

UPDATE – 12/4/2012: The System Center Configuration Manger team has released a hotfix ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2783466 ) to address the re-downloading and redistributing issues described by this post. To minimize further impact, it is strongly...

We've seen a couple instances of an issue here lately that I wanted to mention just in case anyone else happens to run across it. The symptoms can vary but include the following: The WSUS console will not open and may generate the error "MMC could...

Here’s a heads up on yet another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Yuri Diogenes.  This one talks about one way you can fix an issue where Windows Update clients are receiving a 8024402C error when checking for updates...

After starting this blog I realized that we have quite a few people who are new to WSUS and they all seemed eager for docs and labs and whatnot to help them get started.  In an effort to help in that regard I put together a couple links that should...

If you support a specific product or technology long enough you tend to start seeing the same things over and over again, or you pick up on common themes that seem to run through various issues you encounter.   Once such issue I've been running...

Monday and Tuesday we talked briefly about some basic troubleshooting steps for WSUS setup and synchronization, and today I'm going to talk about troubleshooting downloads. When troubleshooting downloads to the WSUS server, WSUS sends a requests to BITS...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) console crashes when browsing for updates and generates an Event ID 7053. ===== Symptoms The Windows Server Update Services...

Here's a cool tip that was sent to me by Joao Madureira, a Support Escalation Engineer in our WSUS group.  If you want to use a self-signed cert in IIS7 for your WSUS clients then you'll want to take a look at this one: ======== Issue: After installing...

A week or so back I mentioned that KB943729 is detected as not applicable on Windows XP Service Pack 3 computers but I should also probably mention that this applies to a couple of the latest .NET Framework updates as well.  For example, you may...

Here's an interesting problem Mike Johnson, one of our top Support Escalation Engineers in the WSUS group found.  If you upgrade to WSUS 3.0 SP1 and notice a problem with your clients then this may be what you're running into: ======== Problem: After...

Hello, my name is Joe Tindale and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the WSUS team. As some of you may know we recently released some driver updates that resulted in an extra ~12,000 updates flowing to your WSUS servers.  At the root of this...

Consider a scenario where you have encountered issues with the installation of KB2720211 ( An update for Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 is available ) which forced you to remove and reinstall WSUS. Afterward, when reinstalling 2720211...

Just a quick FYI that we’ve issued our Advance Notification Service for the November ’10 security bulletin release. This time around we’re releasing three updates addressing 11 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Unified Access Gateway (UAG). One...

I didn't see this documented anywhere so I figured it would possibly help someone out of a jam.  If you're seeing 0x80070070 errors on any of your clients then you'll want to check this out: ======== Issue: When going to the Windows Update page you...

Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here.  I’m a Senior Support Escalation Engineer here at Microsoft on the System Center team and I wanted to take a minute and talk about installing WSUS in an Internet facing scenario.  When installing WSUS, often...

I get this question every once in a while so I thought I’d share what I learned here.  We have two options to upgrade WSUS SP1 to SP2: 1. As an o ffer from Microsoft Update KB972455 is the WSUS SP2 update. If you want to see SP2 in the list of updates...

Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here.  Here on the WSUS support team we occasionally run into an issue where all of the client machines at a customer site suddenly and unexpectedly start accessing the Microsoft Update site and downloading all available...

I already posted this over on our Configuration Manager blog but since it relates to WSUS I thought some of you might like to see it as well.  If you've integrated WSUS into your ConfigMgr environment then this is some good reading by our very own...

We get quite a few questions regarding the installation of Windows Server Update Services so I thought I would post some quick tips of troubleshooting the process for when it runs into problems.  When the WSUS installation fails, it generates four...

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This article includes information about the contents of the update and how to obtain the update. The following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles describe...