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SOLVED: How To Force a Clean Up of WSUS Data & Resolve SERVER NODE RESET Using PowerShell

Updated: January 2022 If you cannot complete a clean up of your WSUS server through the WSUS console because it keeps erroring out with SERVER NODE RESET, you can hopefully complete through the following PowerShell command line: Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -DeclineSupersededUpdates -DeclineExpiredUpdates -CleanupObsoleteComputers -CleanupObsoleteUpdates -CleanupUnneededContentFiles -CompressUpdates If this fails or times out, Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 8 yearsOctober 20, 2016 ago

SOLVED: Window 10 1607 Not Applying GPO’s For Windows Update

This frustrating problem took me nearly 3 weeks to work out with the good staff at Microsoft Partner Support. As you can see in the screen shot, Windows 10 1607 (aka Anniversary) does not display SOME SETTINGS ARE MANAGED BY YOUR ORGANIZATION on Windows Update or Windows Update > Advanced Settings. Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 8 yearsOctober 14, 2016 ago

SOLVED: How To Determine The Source Of Your Windows Updates on Windows 10

UPDATE: VALIDATED THIS PROCESS ON WINDOWS 10 1909 – SEPT 18 2020 If you have Windows 10 clients on a WSUS server and you want to confirm that they are receiving patches from that WSUS server and not going directly to Microsoft to update, you used to just read the Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 8 yearsSeptember 23, 2016 ago

SOLVED: WSUS Server Will Not Launch After August Patch Cycle Including KB3159706

To allow WSUS (and presumably SCCM) to support Windows 10 Anniversary, Microsoft released a patch last month which blew up a number of WSUS servers. They have now released KB3159706 which is supposed to fix that problem and support Windows 10 Anniversary. This patch installs on WSUS servers through the Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 8 yearsAugust 2, 2016 ago

SOLVED: What is Windows Update For Business

Windows Update for Business is a new product from Microsoft that will be made available for free to corporate customers using Windows 10. As of today’s date, the software has not been released and little is known beyond Microsoft’s brief explanations. The key points are that WUFB will: allow IT Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 9 yearsAugust 10, 2015 ago

SOLVED: What is OOBE ZDP in WSUS (Update Services)

If you have looked at your WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) server lately should have seen a new product category named OOBE ZDP but you likely have no idea what it is… and neither did I until I asked Partner Support. After two weeks of research this is what they Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 9 yearsDecember 9, 2014 ago

SOLVED: Surface Pro 3 Driver Firmware Packs Do Not Appear in WSUS Update Services

The short answer is, that is correct. I could not find the driver/feature/firmware packs that Microsoft is releasing for the Surface Pro 3 in my clients Windows Server Update Services WSUS, so I googled it for a while then gave up and asked Microsoft Partner Support and this is what they Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 9 years ago

SOLVED: How to Distribute Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) Using a WSUS Server

Internet Explorer 11 will eventually appear in WSUS after being released directly to it by Microsoft, but until then you can still deploy IE11 using WSUS: Launch WSUS Click UPDATES (not ALL UPDATES but the root UPDATES) in the top left Click IMPORT in the top RIGHT of the Actions Pane Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 years ago

What Time of Day Does Microsoft Release Patches on “Patch Tuesday”

There is no set time for Microsoft to release patches on ‘Patch Tuesday’ to Windows Update but the pattern has been near 11:00am Pacific Standard Time (PST). Further I have observed over the last decade that Patch Tuesday patches do not appear to made available to WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 years ago

SOLVED: How to Move Update Services WSUS Content Files

If you need to move your WSUS content files to a new hard drive on the same server do the following: On the new drive create a folder named WSUS and a subfolder named WSUSContent Launch a CMD window as an Administrator CD to C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools\ Type wsusutil.exe movecontent Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsNovember 8, 2013 ago

SOLVED: Windows Server Update Services WSUS SYNCRONIZATION DETAILS, RESULT: THE ERROR TYPE IS UNKNOWN

There are several solutions to the error below, but in my case the issue was resolved after a simple WSUS > OPTIONS > SERVER CLEANUP. This was odd because I run the Server Cleanup Wizard with regularity. SYNCRONIZATION DETAILS > RESULT: THE ERROR TYPE IS UNKNOWN TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSyncWebServices.ServerSync.ServerSyncProxy’ threw Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 11 years ago

SOLVED: Updates from the WSUS server Result In Error 800B0001, Since Latest Windows Update Agent Installed

BACKGROUND: Every machine I install the lastest Windows Update Agent on results in a 800B0001 error when getting updates “FROM YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR” but have no problems when getting “UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE”. This is the same as: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerwinclient7rc/thread/e64bdfef-f92a-4924-85f1-6b858ec81c59 All of the machines in question are Win 7 64Bit Enterprise Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsJuly 24, 2012 ago

How To Administer WSUS WSS Using SQL Server Management Studio

Microsoft cautions against “administration” of the Windows Internal Database (WID, formerly named SQL Server Compact Edition or CE) in articles like THIS one. However, there are time when you may want to gain access to it for things like: database moves (because the SQL WID is installed on C: whether Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 yearsDecember 6, 2010 ago