May 2008 - Posts
Are you new to WSUS or just want a quick refresher? If so then you'll definitely want to check out this TechNet Virtual Lab on configuring WSUS 3.0: ======== Overview In this lab you learn to use Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 to build
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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
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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
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Here's a cool tip you might be interested in that was sent to me by Joe Tindale, one of our top Support Escalation Engineers working in WSUS: ================= Issue: After upgrading from Windows Server Update Services 2.x to version 3.x you may find
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A few months back I posted about our new Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator and this month we're hosting a live webcast on how to leverage it in your Windows Server 2008 migration. This is one of those tools that really applies
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We get quite a few questions on this so I thought I'd put together a quick step-by-step with screen shots and all that. This is documented on TechNet but with this you can actually see what it all looks like before actually doing it. ======== 1.
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Have you ever found yourself in a situation where the \Content volume on your WSUS server is running out of space but you had no idea how to change where the updates are stored locally? Or maybe the disk where updates are stored fails and the replacement
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Well, looks like I'll be first to jump in on our new WSUS Support Team blog with a little tip on how to migrate your existing approvals during an upgrade from WSUS 2.0 to WSUS 3.0 (including WSUS SP1). I actually got this question the other day
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Well, after spending a lot of time getting the SoftGrid Team Blog off the ground and getting the SMSandMOM blog built up I decided it's time to branch out and start a new support related blog covering Windows Server Update Services. Here at Microsoft
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