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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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Needed Counts in WSUS show Declined Updates

We are a couple months into using WSUS for rolling out updates for our company computers. So far it's gone wonderfully - clients are auto-updating daily, and servers are waiting for our permission every Friday. It's a wonderful thing. Every once…
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WSUS Clients Updating from Microsoft Update

We have a Windows domain and run WSUS for managing client updates. This is all working fine, except when laptop users take their laptops home. When these machines are on their own private network, they merrily download updates from Microsoft Update,…
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How to roll back or uninstall Microsoft patch using WSUS?

Is it possible to use WSUS to roll back a patch? Specifically KB2501584?
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Is deploying .NET Framework 3.5 possible in WSUS?

I've searched Google and seen discussions on it, even on their own MS blogs but I'm at a loss. I've gone into WSUS and chose all of the .NET Framework packages I can find (they were in the "Service Packs" area) and set them to "Install" for a test…
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Stop WSUS from rebooting a server

Our IT department is rolling out a set of patches via WSUS this weekend and will reboot all of our Win2k3 servers on Sunday. Due to production work which must continue uninhibited, we cannot allow this reboot to occur. The exact line we have been…
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Automated Windows Updates Software?

I have heard of WSUS, but is that the best solution? I have techs interrupting our clients to do Windows Updates during business hours. I need a solution that will reduce customer interruptions and is reliable. Any products that do more than…
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With regards to Windows Updates, just how screwed are we?

We have a small "secured network" in our office. And by small I mean it's a Windows 7 PC connected to a firewall which connects to an internet connection. It's for processing card transactions in compliance with PCI DSS. One of the requirements of…
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Windows XP Mode confusing WSUS

I have a need to use Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 to run a legacy application, so I downloaded, installed and configured it on my machine as a test without any issues. The problem I am now having is I have done the same setup on the machine which…
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How To Fix an Azure-Only Active Directory Environment

I just recently started my first job in IT and have been tasked with deploying 60 new laptops right off the bat. I have set up WSUS on our server as the first order of business, but there is a problem I am facing with our Active Directory. The…
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Wsus: staging OU

I'm doing a rollout to a big group of users (1500) and we are being impacted by a lot of delays because of windows updates. Is it possible to create a staging OU where newly built computer can be moved to and delivered to users without getting…
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Update WSUS from MS Security Bulletin DVD

Scenario Windows Server 2003, WSUS 3.0 SP1, No Bandwidth Limited Internet Connection, Microsoft Security Bulletin DVD Questions How do you setup WSUS to import updates from this DVD? Is this even possible? How do you setup a WSUS server when you…
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Windows client without internet, updates from WSUS

For the past few weeks i'm struggling to get WSUS working with Windows-servers as client (AD-environment). Those server don't have external internet access. Thats the reason i've setup WSUS. I've added in the Group Policy that the Windows server…
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Spectre/Meltdown Patches not offered through WSUS

So we have an environment with machines running Server 2008r2, 2012r2, and 2016 (the majority are running 2012r2). All the server updates are managed by a WSUS server running 2012r2 (it patches itself, too). Yesterday, I manually synchronized the…
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WSUS cleanup - timeout when deleting "unneeded update files"

Performing WSUS cleanup which hasn't been done for quite a while - running the cleanup-wizard with the only selected option being "unneeded update files": After about three minutes of processing, the wizard crashed due to a timeout-exception: This…
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Unable to Windows Update and WSUS broken

for a while now, despite working faultlessly for over 3 years, both WSUS and Windows Update have stopped working on our single domain contoller running Windows Server 2008 (not R2). The error we get when trying to run Windows Update is "80072efd"…
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