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Microsoft Windows Server Update Services

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) enables information technology administrators to deploy the latest Microsoft product updates to computers that are running the Windows operating system. By using WSUS, administrators can fully manage the distribution of updates that are released through Microsoft Update to computers in their network. It's free.

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WSUS Windows 10 Updates not working

I know this is a well known issue, but I've tried everything I can find online and I still can't get 1607 or 1703 to deploy to my Windows 10 clients using WSUS on Server 2012 R2. Originally I synchronised WSUS without installing KB3159706 which…
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Suppress windows 'updates are available' notification on server 2012

In our test environment, we approve updates in WSUS and all machine in the test OU are set to automatically download and notify to install these updates. The scheduled install time is Saturday night, but throughout the week I keep seeing an 'updates…
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WSUS and issues pushing Win 10 1703 Update and Win 7 Upgrades

I am in the process of testing roll outs of Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrades using WSUS, as well as rolling out the creators update to our Windows 10 machines. I am testing with three machines - a Dell Desktop running Windows 7 Pro, a VirtualBox VM…
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Roaming WSUS GPO Setup

New to GPOs and have a multi-subnet domain that have site servers with WSUS on them for each subnet. Also have VPN users that go to a different WSUS server. The catch is I need the VPN users to access the site WSUS servers when the users are on-site…
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Approve WSUS Updates on WSUS Replicas using Powershell

we have 3 WSUS Replica Servers and one central server the replicas are connected to. From the central server we are managing the 3 replicas. All Clients are only connected to the replicas. I am trying to create a PowerShell Script, that should…
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Windows Server 2016 cannot connect to WSUS server

I have a brand new installation of Windows Server 2016 WSUS server (Fully patched until 18-Dec-2016). My network consists of about 1000 client-side operating systems and 300 server-side. The clients range from Windows 7 to Windows 10 version 1607.…
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Cannot Update Windows 7 Clients to Windows 10 via WSUS (except ONE!)

We are trying to upgrade our Windows 7 clients to Windows 10 via WSUS. Only one Windows 7 client is recognizing the Windows 10 1607 upgrade as applicable. All the rest show "Not Applicable" or, less frequently "Unknown". There is no difference…
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WSUS able to differentiate between OS for approved updates?

We don't have a big Windows environment, but for the small group of users that do run Windows, they all run slightly different versions (win7, 8.1, 10, etc). I've modified our WSUS settings to pull in updates for all those OS's but I'm wondering,…
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How was this Windows update installed?

I have a bunch of AD-joined Windows servers who updates through WSUS. You can see the specific WSUS GPO here: http://imgur.com/a/LHjll In June an update (KB3159398) was installed that caused problems, so this particular update was declined in WSUS.…
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WSUS 3.2 File cert verification failed

Lately my WSUS 3.2 (SP2) is stuck trying to download Windows 10 1607 en-us. The WSUS server downloads it and later throws it away (deletes the downloaded files), and the process repeats again and again. These are the pertinent C:\Program…
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Do all nodes in a Windows Cluster need to use the same WSUS Server when using Cluster Aware Updating?

In the technet article for Cluster Aware Updating best practices, it states "All cluster nodes should be uniformly configured to use the same update source, for example, a WSUS server, Windows Update, or Microsoft Update." Technet - Requirements and…
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Should a WSUS Server point WUServer to itself?

On the Server running WSUS, should HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\WUStatusServer be configured to localhost/itself? Does WSUS honor the Windows Update Service's settings to synchronise, or will WSUS use a…
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Group Policy - BITS not applying on Windows10

We are upgrading our PCs to Windows 10 and are running into a few problems with updates. OUR SETUP: We have 2 sites based in the UK (Norwich & Preston) and we have a WSUS server in our Norwich site. Once we approve updates, the wsus server downloads…
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WSUS Sync Failure in the middle of synchronization

The WSUS sync with upstream server starts fine and all of a sudden fails in the middle of synchronization: Sync failed: IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.…
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Export Specific updates from WSUS

My team manages multiple environments that are offline. We currently export our WSUS updates from a server that is used by multiple groups and therefore has a lot more updates than what we need or would like to have to copy. Is there anyway…
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