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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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The good folks over in the WSUS product group recently posted on their blog about two new product categories that are showing up in the WSUS Synchronization Options dialogs. An intro and a link to the full post is below: ======== Hello folks! Today
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The question about how Service Packs are reported is one that seems to come up all the time, and understandably so because it can be very confusing if you don't understand what's really going on. Fortunately our very own Joe Tindale wrote up a great
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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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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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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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Have you ever wanted to automate the process of searching, downloading and installing a specific update? How about scanning for security updates without connecting to Windows Update or to a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server? Well
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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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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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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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