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If you've been working with WSUS for a while then you're probably already aware of http://www.wsuswiki.com but if not you should stop by and check it out. One of the cool things about the site is that all information provided on the site is written,
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Here’s an issue we have been seeing lately that I wanted to let you know about. If you've just rolled out some new clients and are seeing these errors then this should explain why. ======== Issue: Newly built clients may fail to sync
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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
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We're getting a few calls on this one so I thought it would be worth a mention here. Thanks to Joe Tindale for bringing this to my attention: ======== Issue: You try to deploy KB9432729 - Information about new Group Policy preferences in Windows
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Here's an interesting issue written up by Scott Ellison, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in our Charlotte, NC office. This issue is caused by a missing EULA, and nobody likes a missing EULA: ======== Issue: When attempting to deploy a software update
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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
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Here's a great tip from Rob Coffey, a real life WSUS support engineer from North Carolina. We've seen reports of this occurring if you upgrade to WSUS Service Pack 1 and then remove the SP although I haven't been able to confirm this myself. If you have
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Here's a cool tip on an issue that seems to get people from time to time. This one comes from Joao Madureira, a real life WSUS support engineer from Texas: ======== Issue: When checking the console for approved updates, some updates may appear as
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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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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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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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Here's an interesting issue that Mike Johnson, one of our WSUS Support Escalation Engineers, came across the other day. If you find that your clients are failing to download content files with an EXE extension you might be running into the same issue.
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