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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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Deploy third party updates with SCUP and WSUS without SCCM

We are trying to install SCUP on a Windows Server 2016 to deploy third party (non Microsoft) updates on a WSUS server. The publishing of SCUP is ok and WSUS doesn't show the SCUP update files. In the WSUS console, the upstream server shows the…
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WSUS is downloading hundreds of old declined updates

Without applying any changes in configuration and settings, WSUS server start downloading hundreds of old updates from 2009 until now (2020) after regular scheduled syncing with Microsoft. It downloaded over 100 GB and I don't know what is the…
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WSUS Server Not Seeing Local Content

I have a Windows Server 2019 running as a WSUS server. I just rebuilt it because of some database connection issues moving from one server to another. SO this is a fresh install. This is not connected to the internet as I exported the data from one…
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Windows updates in WSUS - how to determine which KB is for which windows version?

I would like to automate the distribution of updates from my Master WSUS to offline branch servers using scripts, but not in all branches we have all windows versions and I would like only distribute relevant updates to each branch server. The…
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Purge all WSUS settings from Windows 2016 domain Win10 windows fleet

I have a windows domain that, at one time, used a WSUS server. This setup wasn't well maintained, and I wanted to stop using it. I removed the GPO, but it seems that many machines still think the domain: "specifies target server to host updates" How…
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Windows 2012 WSUS and Office 2016

I have configured our existing Windows 2012 WSUS Server to get updates for Office 2016. Till now I always did it like this: Checked the product category for Office 2016 . this downloaded on next sync the listing I left this on unapproved until a…
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WSUS showing required updates, but server says up to date?

I have multiple servers that are showing 10-20 updates required in the WSUS console. The server says that it is up to date. I have verified that the update is approved and shows as install status, but the server still doesn't download it? I have…
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sccm and wsus problems

Let me try to explain my problem. I have an offline system (multiple servers virtual and physically) that are provided with updates via SCCM. We get the updates on a regular Basis from a higher up department. The Content is copied via robocopy and…
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Windows update error code 8000FFFF

We are using WSUS for updates. Last week I pushed out 2019-01 Monthly Security roll up for servers and desktops. Almost 1/3 systems had update failure with the same error code 8000FFFF, "Windows update encountered an unknow error", it happened on…
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WSUS after Server Upgrade

We have upgraded our 2008 servers to 2016, steps we renamed old servers as OLDSERVER1 and changed IP add new 2016 server kept same server Name and IP as old. Now in WSUS its still shows as 2008 server, Should delete the servers from WSUS computers…
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Preventing Windows Server 2012 from adding default route

I have a WSUS server on a machine with 4 NIC ports. I have added a permanent route which "most of the time" forces the WSUS to use the desired NIC to get updates from Microsoft. (route -p add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.50.1 metric 1) But when…
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Is it necessary to separate SCCM, SUP, and WSUS roles

I ran a test setup with at my company where I deployed SCCM to one of our VMs, but I never used our WSUS server, nor did we have a SUP server. Just how crucial is it that these three remain separate? In my test setup, I had our DP on the Primary…
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Is there a Microsoft alternative to WSUS other than SCCM?

WSUS 2016 "allows" 3rd party patches through APIs, but it is buggy. Is there another free alternative built in to say Windows Server 2019?
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Group Policy Management Option Not Available

I'm working on setting up WSUS and I'm following this guide here I got to the point of Creating Group Policies and Linking on Client Computers OU to Point them on WSUS Server but for some reason under tools on my dashboard I do not have the Group…
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Automate setting Update Server settings for non domain servers

I am trying to automate setting about 40 non domain servers to use a WSUS server. I've read posts like Can I use Powershell to configure Local group policy settings in windows server 2008 r2 and I've gotten it to work ... sort of. If I run the…
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