by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated Nov 10, 2022 | Published on Nov 9, 2022 | Blog, Guides, WSUS
You probably already know that backing up your Windows Server Updates Services is crucial. You want to back up because restores are faster than rebuilding WSUS. Although it’s not difficult to rebuild, it takes valuable time we know you don’t have. Your WSUS...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated Jan 18, 2023 | Published on Nov 9, 2022 | Blog, Guides, WSUS
You probably already know that backing up your Windows Server Update Services is crucial. You want to back up because restores are faster than rebuilding WSUS. Although it’s not difficult to rebuild, it takes valuable time we know you don’t have. Your WSUS...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated Oct 29, 2022 | Published on Jun 2, 2022 | Guides, WSUS
If you are trying to install WSUS on a server using the Windows Internal Database (WID), you will likely NOT receive this error. This is because even on Windows Server 2022, the WID is an older special embedded version of SQL server. We can see this by using the TSQL...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated Oct 29, 2022 | Published on Oct 28, 2021 | Blog, Guides, WSUS
I’ve successfully in-place upgraded a WSUS/PDQ Deploy/PDQ Inventory server from Server 2012 > Server 2012R2 > Server 2019 > Server 2022. It is a VM that is appropriately sized for the 3 roles that it has. Caveats with WSUS: After the in-place upgrades,...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated Oct 29, 2022 | Published on Jun 24, 2021 | Guides, WSUS
If you want to Reset the Windows Update GPO Settings because you are moving away from WSUS, or you need to for troubleshooting purposes (sometimes corruption in the registry permissions prevent expected changes from happening), the easiest way to do this is to remove...
by Admin | Last updated Sep 22, 2021 | Published on Jun 16, 2021 | Blog, WSUS
Microsoft has officially announced that Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) users will no longer be able to synchronize and download updates starting on October 31, 2021. While this may be a surprise to some, the writing has been on the wall...
