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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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SCCM: Zoinks... Mystery Maintenance Windows

What am I trying to do? We have a few SCCM clients, mostly publicly facing websites running on Windows Server 2008 R2's IIS 7.5, that are monitored by a system called XYmon. We have recently noticed these servers are rebooting after installing their…
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WSUS configuration for Windows 8.1 clients

I have set up WSUS 2.0 (on 2008 R2). All client side machines are running Windows 8.1. At the request of the users, i have been running with the below GP configuration so WSUS is less intrusive, and wont shut down their machines automatically etc.…
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WSUS and Pulled Patches

When Microsoft pulls bad patches, does WSUS automatically pull the patches as well or do we need to do it manually? If we have to do it manually, how do we keep on top of bad patches?
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How to prevent Server rebooting upon log off when a restart is pending?

This issue is related to Windows Update forcing a restart when the last session logs off Server 2003. Updates have been installed and a restart is pending. Obviously this is problematic if the last session is logged off during the day. The server is…
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Default Microsoft Windows Update Server

I'm in a corporate Windows environment, which has deployed its own WSUS server. The thing is, it seems to hardly ever be updated. This means I don't get the latest updates for months. It's a worry for security, and inconvenient for other MS…
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Using WSUS to update machines not on the domain

I have a WSUS server providing updates for for the computers on my domain. We also bring allot of machines back to our office and run windows update on them as build image, this means that we end up downloading the same updates over and over…
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WSUS Alternatives?

Basic scenario is a PC repair shop where there's a lot of time being essentially wasted downloading/installing Windows updates on individual machines. I had intended to set up an in-house WSUS server to deal with this, but as I got into the install…
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Windows 10 Optional Feature Optical Character Recognition Install Failed

I recently updated my base build (WIM) to Windows 10 1709. In order to build this WIM using MDT, it can be necessary to prevent Windows 10 from automatically updating Optional Features in the background, as this servicing activity breaks the build…
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Windows 10 circumvents WSUS

I am gradually installing Windows 10 in an environment where users hate Windows 10. So, everything has to go perfect. This environment already used WSUS to delivery updates to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 computers, as well as Windows Server 2008 R2…
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WSUS Error 8000FFFF

Two issues with our WSUS Some of our Servers (2008r2/2012r2) and Win 7 got error 8000FFFF when installing security updates from WSUS. For most of servers and desktops are just working fine. From WSUS report, I can see the updates have been…
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Canceling WSUS download process

I recently deployed a WSUS role to a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. Test operation was successful and it downloaded and distributed a modest selection of updates. Today, I added a few products to my selection. Then, I clicked the synchronize…
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What will happen if disk space is exhausted on a WSUS server?

Currently, I have a WSUS role installed on Windows Server 2012 R2. It downloads updates to a 500GB disk. The size of updates that it will download is more than the disk space, so what will happen after the space is exhausted? The OS and WSUS updates…
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Why can Win10 Nodes Check In With WSUS But Not Pull Updates (0x8024401c)

I have a Windows Server 2016 running WSUS (WID Database). The nodes on my system are all Windows 10 Professional. They are configured through group policy to check the Server 2016 for updates. The nodes and server are not behind a proxy in…
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How to use Powershell to see status of an update in server?

I made an update server using WSUS 6.3 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. I want to see the status of an update (e.g: KB3035583) using powershell. I know there are some way to do that but I don't know any of them.
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WSUS Database using lots of memory, how to optimize

So I have installed a new instance of WSUS on a 2012R2 system. The WSUS server will be serving about 350 systems (servers+desktops+laptops) total. It is running in a Hyper-V VM, and I currently have allocated it 10GB of memory, but in less than a…
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