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We often get questions about when the support End of Life (EOL) is for a particular piece of software so I thought I’d mention some of the important dates for WSUS in case you were still running any of the older versions. WSUS 2.0 RTM support has already
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We had three updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - one on Microsoft Update and two on WSUS. Links and titles are below: ======== Microsoft Software Update Services 894199 - Description of Software Update Services and Windows Server Update
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Hello, Joe Tindale here from the WSUS team to give you some tips on those timeout errors you may see when trying to view or approve updates. This problem is prevalent on WSUS2 but it can happen on WSUS3 as well. It usually happens when a large number
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If you're in charge of administering WSUS then chances are you're pretty concerned with making sure you're aware of any new Knowledge Base articles as quickly as possible. That's why you subscribe to this blog and others like it. Being aware of
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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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Do you get the occasional OutOfMemoryException error when running reports in WSUS? Are you looking to customize the reporting capabilities. How about improving the overall performance of the reports? If you answered yes to any of these
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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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There is a small misunderstanding in BITS capabilities. When we say "bandwidth-throttling technology uses only idle bandwidth" and thus "downloads do not interfere with or slow other network activity, such as Internet browsing" the
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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
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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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This isn't something specific to Windows Server Update Services but it's pretty cool nonetheless. It was a long time coming but both MSDN and TechNet got a much needed make-over last week so if you haven't stopped by lately you'll want to check them out
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I was going over some of the issues we've been getting in the WSUS support group and came across one that seemed pretty interesting. I didn't see it documented anywhere so I thought I'd write it up here in case any of you happen to run across it. The
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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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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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