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These posts revolve around Windows Server Update Services (WSUS); its setup, its maintenance, guides, and best practices.

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Mar2019

How Do I Connect to the Windows Internal Database (WID)?

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Connecting to the Windows Internal Database (WID) can only be done LOCALLY. It cannot be done from a remote machine. This is one of the trade-offs for using WID over SQL Express (but SQL Express carries a hard database size limit where as the WID does not). Using SQL Server Management ... Read More
March 2, 2019Adam J. Marshall

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Feb2019

Windows Update for Business – Why Should I Choose It?

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Windows Update for Business (WUfB) is a new method of thinking about how updates are done. It is a fundamental switch in how you look at dealing with updates. It can make your life easier if you can just get over the fundamental switch in realizing that you have little ... Read More
February 25, 2019Adam J. Marshall

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Feb2019

RSAT Tools on 1809, Other Features On Demand AKA Optional Features

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As Microsoft changes Windows 10 to use more Features on Demand (FOD), there will be a much larger pull to have these updates come directly from Microsoft. Currently (2019.02), feature on demand updates don't flow down to WSUS specifically from 1809. I'm not entirely sure why because there are Windows ... Read More
February 21, 2019Adam J. Marshall

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Jan2019

Dual Scan – Making Sense of Why So Many Admins Have Issues

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What do the following have in common for WSUS Administrators? Select when Preview Builds and Feature Updates are received (BranchReadinessLevel, DeferFeatureUpdates, DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodInDays, PauseFeatureUpdatesStartTime) Select when Quality Updates are received (DeferQualityUpdates, DeferQualityUpdatesPeriodInDays) Besides being Windows Update for Business policies (a fundamental change of the way you think about updates), when specified in ... Read More
January 31, 2019Adam J. Marshall

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Jan2019

Client Machines Not Reporting to WSUS Properly?

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Quick Fix - Client-Side Script: Choose Your Method - Command Prompt, or PowerShell Command Prompt Remove the affected devices from the WSUS MMC console and then from an administrative command prompt on each affected system, run: net stop bits net stop wuauserv reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v AccountDomainSid /f reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v PingID /f reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" ... Read More
January 26, 2019Adam J. Marshall

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Nov2018

WSUS System Requirements – What Should I Plan For?

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Microsoft's official system requirements are a good starting point, however, they don't give you the full picture. Let's look at this one by one. Processor: 1.4 gigahertz (GHz) x64 processor (2 Ghz or faster is recommended) So, 1.4-2.0 GHz is already in play by pretty much every single processor out there for ... Read More
November 15, 2018Adam J. Marshall

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Oct2018

Externally Facing WSUS Servers

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Take the following questions into consideration: How can we solve the problem with controlling updates and reporting both internally and externally using WSUS? How do we make sure that all of our client systems receive updates whether they are inside or outside the office using only WSUS and not SCCM ... Read More
October 22, 2018Adam J. Marshall

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Sep2018

How to Migrate or Upgrade WSUS

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There are 3 different types of ways to upgrade WSUS. Install the new Server OS, install the WSUS role synchronizing with Microsoft Update, creating your groups, adjusting your settings, and then changing your GPOs over to the new server. An In-place upgrade of the server OS, where you just upgrade ... Read More
September 23, 2018Adam J. Marshall

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Sep2018

What do I do when I run out of space on a WSUS Server?

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Oops! Doh! Huh? %#@*!!! These are all the words you think of in your head when you're investigating what is happening with your WSUS server and realize that WSUS just ate all of your disk space and there is 0 bytes free. What do you do next? If WSUS was downloading content ... Read More
September 21, 2018Adam J. Marshall

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Jun2018

How to Remove WSUS Completely and Reinstall it

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The steps to remove WSUS and reinstall WSUS are pretty standard but they do have some variances on how WSUS was installed in the first place. To remove WSUS completely, you need to: Remove WSUS Role You can remove the role through the GUI using Server Manager or You can use ... Read More
June 19, 2018Adam J. Marshall