Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

Shimmy — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:53:19 GMT

Above script will not execute properly on 64 bit machines, this script is redesigned to run in mixed 32 and 64 bit enviromentd and it also sets WsusIdResetOK value so it runs only once...

REM------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

set src=%windir%\system32

if exist %windir%\sysnative\ set src=%windir%\sysnative

%src%\REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v WsusIdResetOK

if %errorlevel%==0 goto exit

net stop wuauserv

%src%\REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v AccountDomainSid /f

%src%\REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v PingID /f

%src%\REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v SusClientId /f

net start wuauserv

wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow

%src%\REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v WsusIdResetOK /t REG_SZ /d 1

:exit

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

Tony — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:19:49 GMT

I am a 1 man IT shop so after realizing that i had done this, I was extremely happy to find your step-by-step instructions J.C. There are a lot of people that try to help others out here in the IT world but don't take into consideration the various levels of expertise. I truly appreciate you making my life a lot easier. Tested the script and it works great!

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

Ahsan Kabir — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:55:16 GMT

Thanks ,Nice idea to think

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

Ahsan Kabir — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:53:56 GMT

Thanks ,Nice idea to think

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

Fab — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:36:49 GMT

Is this needed on Windows XP and 2000 or also on Vista/7/8?

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

WSUSClientID.log — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:25:05 GMT

Should I delete the log file before running the bat file. I tried it on machines where log file already exists and it does not do anything but if I delete the log file then the batch runs okay.

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

Terrax — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:36:31 GMT

Brilliant article, the batch file resolved this annoying issue, thank you a lot!

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

GC-Tech — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:27:12 GMT

The BITS Service is normally set to manual and is started by other processes or services "on demand" .So it is not neccessary to restart the BITS service as the AU service will invoke it when it is needed.

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

Cam_ — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:29:31 GMT

I know this is an old post, but could you please clear something up for me? I noticed that you stopped the bits service, but did not restart it. Should the bits service be restarted when the wuauserv service is started?

Thanks.

re: Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?”

snirh — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:59:40 GMT

Hi,

There is a tool for solving Duplicate SID and Duplicate WSUS ID's on your network.

It called DSM (Duplicate SID Monitor), the good thing about it that it will monitor your network all the time and not just the one time you ran the script to solve a problem.

Link to the tool: http://www.smart-x.com/?CategoryID=176&ArticleID=97&sng=1