WSUS

While reviewing my WSUS reports (exported to Excel) I found that I could streamline extracting the KB article from the exported report using a basic formula in Excel.Here’s the excel formula. =LEFT(RIGHT(D9,10),LEN(RIGHT(D9,10))-1)

I’m receiving this error message on my WSUS 3.0 SP2 server. The proposed fix ((http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/e918a191-ef6d-4c4b-b83a-7a4ae20a5217/wsus-30-sp2-will-not-run-after-installing-update-2720211?forum=winserverwsus)) indicates to perform the following. Download the KB2720211 from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2720211 Open Regedit, and change the value of this DWORD to 0: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Update Services\Server\Setup\wYukonInstalled Install KB2720211 Change the DWORD value back to 1 Stop the SQL database service (I used Windows…

I was checking a few systems this morning and came across this glorious error.Easy enough to fix, right?  Just go to Administrative Tools > Services and restart the Windows Server Update Services service, right? Of course not! That service doesn’t exist.  I have WSUSCert ((Something cool)) service, but not the server service.  So now I’m…

The time period in which computers will check for updates on WSUS server is 22 hours (default).  However, you can have the client computer check manually by using the following command line: wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow If that doesn’t initially work, you can try a little more advanced option here involving removing some registry entries and…

You can force your computer to report its status to the WSUS server by issuing the following command: wuauclt /reportnow More information is available on the TechNET page:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720477(v=ws.10).aspx