July 2008 - Posts
Here's an interested tip from Mike Johnson, one of our top WSUS Support Escalation Engineers out in North Caolina. If you're seeing phantom Office 2003 components show up where they should then you'll want to take a look at this one: ======== Issue:
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This is just an heads up in case you missed the announcement, but Windows Search 4 is coming to Windows Update sometime this month (if it's not already here). Note that this update will not automatically install on WSUS clients and Windows users
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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%.
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Here's a cool tip from Mike Johnson, one of our expert WSUS engineers out in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you've rolled out the recent WSUS sync fix then he explains how you can verify that the patch is in fact installed. ======== We recently released
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If your existing SUSDB is hosted by the Windows Internal Database version of SQL that is installed by WSUS 3.x you may have noticed that remote connections to the database don’t work. This is actually expected behavior because the Windows Internal
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Here's a new Knowledge Base article that recently published regarding Windows Server Update Services 3.0 and the Office 2003 Service Pack 1 update issue. There are download links to the fix included in the article. ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=954960
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Client communication When troubleshooting clients, the first thing you'll want to look at is the windowsupdate.log which will be in c:\%windir%\Windowsupdate.log. In order to understand how to read the windowsupdate.log , the reference for it is located
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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
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Yesterday I posted some general tips on troubleshooting the WSUS installation process and today we're going to take a quick look at troubleshooting synchronization. When troubleshooting synchronization issues you need to make sure you have the basics
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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
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Joe Tindale, one of our top gun WSUS Support Escalation Engineers, recently wrote up a good explanation on why the updates offered by Windows Update or Microsoft Update may differ from the number reported by WSUS as being 'Needed'. If you've ever seen
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We still gets quite a few support calls concerning problems caused by some sort of prerequisite issue so I thought it might be a good idea to post a link to the pre-install considerations you should be aware of before setting up a new Windows Server Update
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