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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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Can GPO prevent WSUS post install tasks?

Just rebuilt my WSUS Server 2012 R2 x64 from a VLSC disc. Added drivers and then joined the server to the domain. I then tried to install WSUS. I was able to add the feature. Then during post install I get the following error: 2017-09-08 14:25:20 …
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Setting Windows Update settings for WSUS server

What is the typical configuration for Windows Update on the server that hosts WSUS? Do you normally point it to itself at the target WSUS server or do you let it pull updates from Microsoft Update at manual intervals? Most of the documentation I can…
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WSUS Post-Installation error | Windows Server 2012 R2

I did a standard WSUS installation, now I'm trying to do the post-installation, but it's kept failing, I'm the administrator of the machine, and I've tried to do the installation again with a domain administrator account, but the post installation…
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WSUS shows incorrect Needed Count (or: how to get it to 100%?)

I want to monitor which of my servers need updates so I installed WSUS. Installation went fine and the servers are getting their updates now from WSUS. However, most of the servers show an incorrect number of needed updates. For example this…
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How to stop server 2012R2 and 2008R2 from rebooting after updates auto installed

Is there a way to stop server2008R2 / 2012r2 from rebooting after updates auto-installed? I need to manually reboot the servers I have GPO setup to download and auto-install for updates. and no restart if there is any user logged on. but the thing…
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No recent Windows updates showing as applicable in WSUS

I have setup a WSUS server on my domain, and have noticed that the most recent 'needed' updates release date was from August 2016. The clients on my domain are all running Windows 2012 R2, and I have the following Products/Classifications…
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How To Patch Server running WSUS Without Shooting Yourself In The Foot

I'm starting to use WSUS for patch management and I'm a little light in the experience department. Our requirements are simple in that we want to make sure every server we have is up, on and ready for patches once a week. We can automatically…
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WSUS TargetGroup being populated from...somewhere

I have a WSUS 3.0 SP2 environment, using Server-side trageting, but some clients are getting a registry entry for TargetGroup, as if they were managed using Client-side targeting. Interestingly the TargetGroup name is not even vaguely valid - is a…
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Windows Update download from WSUS stuck at 0 percent

I'm struggling with update deployment from WSUS server (2012 R2) to our client computers and can't find solution on Google so I'm here. For the first time. The problem occurs only on some hosts and not always. Currently I'm trying to fix this while…
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Badly-formatted WSUS 2016 update reports

I've installed WSUS on Windows Server 2016 to replace an old WSUS 3.0 server, and the detailed updates reports are badly formatted, with a lot of the information apparently truncated. These reports are split into five; Description, Approval Summary,…
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WSUS Updates not coming from WSUS Server

We have a few thousand PCs and laptops, all on Windows 8.1 The WSUS server and DCs are 2012r2. The problem I am having, even though the group policies all direct clients to http://wsusserver:8530 and I have checked the registry is this: Clients…
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WSUS update directory is gone. Can I just create a new directory?

I had my WSUS updates folder on my D: which is now gone. If I can't get it back can I just create a new directory and then just re download the updates? I am using the default WID DB so I'm not sure if that would have any effect on setting up a…
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WSUS downloading updates when "Do not store updates locally" is set.

I have a WSUS server that insists on downloading updates even when I've specified that it should not download anything locally. Essentially I'm running it as a source of approvals rather than a patch distribution point. To that end I've set it to…
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Can't access WSUS console from local system; can access it from another host?

I have a WSUS server running on Server 2012 R2, update services 3.2.7600.226. From Server Manager, I see that WSUS has an error, and specifically when I open the errors I see "The DSS Authentication Web Service is not working" and the same thing…
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Can I use a proxy/firewall to re-direct Windows Update agent to WSUS instead of WU, without reconfiguring the client?

I work in a computer service company and we have several clients connected to the internal network and servers, including one WSUS server. Now, we have entered a GPO that forces the client to perform automatic updates from the WSUS server. The…
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