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An update service for Microsoft operating systems, server products, Office applications, Windows Defender, and Internet Explorer. It provides security updates, service packs, roll-ups, feature packs, and malware protection. The service is included in all versions of Windows since Windows 2000.

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WSUS Shows Incorrect Version & WSUS (isolated) fails to download updates

One of the issues we are having is the clients will not download the updates from our WSUS server. They check-in as they are suppose too and find applicable updates but they are unable to actually download and install them. The GPO is set…
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What causes automatic install of trusted root certificate authorities into local machine's certificate store?

I spend whole day by diagnosing issue with my test services using mutual HTTPS. Services are hosted in IIS 7 on a test server running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition. Suddenly few weeks ago all test services stopped working and any request to…
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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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How do you reboot Windows Server 2003 and be sure it does NOT install any updates

We need to reboot a win 2003 standard server with the least amount of down time possible. What steps do you take to ensure no windows updates will be applied durring the reboot?
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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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Managing laptops and desktops in the organization and pushing windows updates to them

Here are a couple of things we are trying to achieve. Our staff currently uses a bunch of desktops and laptops. Around 30-50 of the staff, most of them are laptops (mix of HP and Lenovo). Most using Win 7 Professional, a minority using XP. What is…
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How to synchronize Windows 2003 updates from Production > Test server?

We are using a Virtual Private Server to host our production Windows Server 2003 R2 web server. The hosting provider automatically installs the Windows patches (updates) on their own schedule. We also have a test server on a virtual machine. Thus…
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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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Will IIS always be installed as fully patched?

When I install Internet Information Server on a Windows machine that is fully patched according to Windows Update, will it be installed as patched right from the start? I have always wondered if any patching inconsistencies could arise from the fact…
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How to manually run Windows Update for Windows 2003?

I'd like to manually run windows update without accessing the windows update web site. Could you give me a hand? Thanks!
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DISM unable to repair Server 2016

I've been fighting this for a few days now and could really use some help from the community. This started out as a failure to install windows updates on a Server 2016 Datacenter, which led to indications that there was an issue with CBS store…
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How to ensure server 2016 is getting all the latest patches

I ran a Nessus scan on my Server 2016 server and got the following error: "The remote Windows host is missing security update 4571694." When doing some research on the patch I found this…
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Turning off the "Remove access to use all Windows Update features" group policy

Windows 10 introduced a new computer group policy, "Remove access to use all Windows Update features", which blocks access to the Windows Update control panel. You can turn this on in group policy and then make the client see the change by scanning…
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Determine which Windows Update KB package a specific OS file belongs to?

I have a Windows 7 machine that has the file ucrtbase.dll of Universal C Runtime installed in the version 10.0.10586.1412. However, the latest official MS Update I can find patching this file for Windows 7 is KB3118401, which contains this file in…
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Server 2019 UpdateOrchestrator - reboot missing

We have one upgraded Server 2019 box (from Server 2016) and one new one. On the new one I wanted to disable reboot (and rename the file and use a blank directory instead) to prevent this really annoying default habit of the server deciding to reboot…
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