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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 SCCM or WSUS actively initiate a new TCP connection to the client?

I have computers connected to a corporate domain network with SCCM (+WSUS?) running on common TCP ports (8531, 443, 80 I guess). The computers are behing a hw firewall and new outbound connections to those ports are disabled, only a handful of…
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WSUS report shows weeks old data and not reflecting real status

Hello we have several WSUS server in our company and one of them is acting weird. Servers get patched but there is still status "Downloaded" or not even any status for the current month KBs in the WSUS console report if I open one computer details…
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Force Windows 10 20H2 install without WSUS?

I have enforced Windows Updates using Group Policy for many years now. And the client workstations without fail have installed any critical or important updates per my GP settings. Automatically after-hours. Now with the Windows 10 feature updates…
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Unable to connect to WSUS and Group Policy

So I have an odd issue where my server is unable to connect to either my WSUS server or update Group Policy. While running updates I noticed that one of my servers errors saying it can't connect to the WSUS server (my own, not MS). I rebooted…
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Domain joined Windows Server 2019 - not connected to domain network

I have two Windows Server 2019 machines in my infrastructure which are connected on 'Guest or Public networks' and I have been unable to switch to domain network. I have tried many solutions gathered around the Internet but none has been successful…
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WSUS WUServer Registry Key

I am having a hard time figuring this out. I started up a WSUS in our environment and everything was working fine up until a month ago. We are about 200 computers company wide and I had 10-15 at most checking in with the server. I noticed that all…
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Windows 2019 WSUS Error 0x8000ffff when pushing out Windows 10 Upgrades

I've had this error on 3 separate Windows 2019 servers I've tried to install Windows Server update Services (WSUS) on; It's worked fine on every Windows 2016 server I've configured, so I'm assuming I'm getting something wrong, or something's changed…
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Changing WSUS server used to update SCCM

I'm very new to WSUS and SCCM. -- After reading duct_tape_coder message, I edited the text-- Thanks Coder! Currently there is an old setup using a SCCM 2012 server to update internal systems, without internet connection. An exporting WSUS server…
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WSUS GPO - Specific week specified, but ignored

I have configured a GPO to force updates via GPO in a scheduled maintenance window since these boxes were previously getting updates and just rebooting outside of active hours. I would prefer that these servers are only rebooted one weekend out of…
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Public facing WSUS - best practices

At the moment people from the company, who use company laptops at home, need to be connected via VPN to have Windows Update not throw errors, since the WSUS server is only for internal use. I know it's possible to make WSUS public-facing; given…
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Moving WSUS DB To Another Drive

So I am moving the WID SUSDB from my C Drive to my E drive on my Windows Server 2016 server. I need to make more room for other C Drive required software and items coming down the pike. Both are internal partitions on the same RAID 5 virtual disk.…
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Is it possible to configure WSUS to download and put updates for a specific software type in a specific location?

Our network uses WSUS to download and install approved updates to most of our workstations. We also have SharePoint servers that we manually update via cumulative updates (CUs) once per month. The current process requires us going to Microsoft's…
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Possible to not cache updates on WSUS server?

Is it possible to not cache windows updates on the WSUS server AT ALL (because updates take up so much disk space) and have clients retrieve them from internet based update servers (updates will be cached on clients using Delivery Optimization)…
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WSUS Post-Installation Tasks Failed Windows Server 2012

I am installing WSUS on a server running Server 2012. The post-installation tasks fail. I have tried un-installing, then re-installing WSUS with no luck. This is the error message in the logs : Instantiating UpdateServer CreateDefaultSubscription…
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how wsus download updates

I have just installed wsus role in a windows 2016 server. It was my understanding that wsus would have been contacted by all the computers/servers in the network and would have downloaded the files that they need. In less than a day wsus is…
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