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Fri, Dec 9 2011 14:17

New Product Family and Product Categories for Microsoft Online Services in WSUS

New Product Family and Product Categories for Microsoft Online Services - WSUS Product Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wsus/archive/2011/12/09/new-product-family-and-new-product-categories-for-microsoft-online-services...
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Thu, Dec 8 2011 10:36

KB2630976 is showing up in WSUS as "needed".

KB2630976 is showing up in WSUS as "needed". Sorry folks, I don't know what game WSUS is playing but I think this is a total screw up. Don't approve it, hang loose.
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Thu, Aug 12 2010 1:08

We're going to tweak WSUS

We're going to tweak WSUS to be a bit more proactive in pushing out updates to Vista and Windows 7 workstations. This only impacts those two platforms and cannot be adjusted for WinXP workstations as this particular policy won't work on XP. You...
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Thu, Jul 8 2010 23:56

When you clean up WSUS

When you clean up WSUS, do each one separatey if you haven"t cleaned up WSUs in a long time. Don't try to run all of them at the same time.
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Tue, Nov 24 2009 20:01

931125 being reoffered over and over and over and....

If you are seeing 931125 being reoffered via WSUS it's due to the fact that the May 2009 update is not properly marked at "HasSupercedingUpdates" which is messing up the offering of the September update causing it to be reoffered. Decline...
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Mon, Sep 7 2009 1:23

Running the wizard on WSUS 3 sp2

After the WSUS 3 sp2 installs, there is a wizard that pops up. You can hit cancel... or you can just be a SBSer and click next next next next next next...... How to run the WSUS 3 sp2 wizard and not break the WSUS integration with SBS 2008 (or 2003 for...
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Thu, Aug 27 2009 2:25

Repairing WSUS 3 on SBS 2008

To repair WSUS 3 on a SBS 2008 box is actually relatively easy (at least as compared to ripping out SBS 2003 monitoring and putting it back) Repair Windows Server Update Services: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd443475%28WS.10%29.aspx Make...
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Thu, Aug 27 2009 1:10

Installing WSUS 3 sp2

Installing WSUS 3 sp2 is needed to support patching Win7 on your network. To install, you'll see that you'll need to run through the install process by clicking next, next, next......... and importantly at the end...cancel. Click to accept the...
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Thu, Apr 9 2009 14:01

Support for WSUS 2

If you are running SBS 2003 R2 that still has WSUS 2, ensure that you update it to WSUS 3. WSUS 2 is going off of support. http://blogs.technet.com/sus/archive/2009/04/09/a-quick-note-on-the-windows-server-update-services-life-cycle.aspx We often get...
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Mon, Feb 16 2009 20:59

Killing off the Red X

In the SBS 2003 R2 patch report sometimes you'll get a computer that indicates it has patching issues: So you go in and see that a workstation is having issues.... And when you click on it, it says..."What errors?" So what's going on...
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Thu, Dec 4 2008 14:10

If you are STILL impacted by monitoring reports not working

To put all the steps in one place here's the three recommended: 1. uncheck the drivers in WSUS -- http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/08/22/time-to-uncheck-the-driver-category-on-wsus.aspx 2. Run the driver clean up tool http://blogs.technet...
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Tue, Oct 21 2008 1:01

Silverlight on WSUS

http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2008/10/21/silverlight-now-available.aspx On your WSUS tonight is Silverlight 2.0. For those that consider Java evil, Flash even more evil, consider that Silverlight is the less evil one. But regardless, until there...
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Tue, Sep 2 2008 13:59

Declining those drivers

The WSUS Support Team Blog : A large number of driver updates showing up in WSUS: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/archive/2008/08/20/a-large-number-of-driver-updates-showing-up-in-wsus.aspx For those of you with WSUS 3 boxes if you haven't ran this tool...
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Fri, Aug 22 2008 10:58

Time to uncheck the driver category on WSUS

The WSUS Support Team Blog : A large number of driver updates showing up in WSUS: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/archive/2008/08/20/a-large-number-of-driver-updates-showing-up-in-wsus.aspx Read more on that blog post. No, unchecking drivers will not "blue...
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Wed, Aug 20 2008 2:30

Drivers again in WSUS

Yes, I know, I should unclick drivers and just ignore this, but sometimes there are some interesting drivers that are sync'd up to WSUS. Tonight (or rather today), we have drivers again (approx 600 or so) syncing up to the WSUS server. So if you see...
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Fri, Aug 15 2008 22:34

Just looking for those folks that even AFTER running the WSUS clean up tool that their Server Monitoring reports are not firing as they should

Installing Windows Server Update Services 3.0 on Windows Small Business Server 2003: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708091.aspx Hardware Component Requirement Processor Modern processor of at least 1 GHz System memory 1 GB (2 GB recommended...
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Tue, Aug 5 2008 20:31

Cleaning up WSUS

So what maintenance should we be doing each month and we're not on our WSUS's? Les Connor recommends these: In WSUS v3 SP1, it's a wizard run from the 'options' page of the management console. Click on that Server clean up wizard....
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Mon, Jul 14 2008 19:39

WSUS/SCCM top issues

In this Issue: TOP SUPPORT ISSUES NEW & UPDATED KB ARTICLES NEW & TOP DOWNLOADS NEW WEBCASTS TOP SUPPORT ISSUES =============== The following "hot topics" were posted and resolved during the month of July: Issue #1 ====== Problem Description...
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Tue, May 20 2008 9:44

Just say no

For some reason WSUS apparently thinks we need Silverlight on our workstations and servers. (and is there any wonder why I don't have auto updates turned on?)
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Sat, Feb 9 2008 17:52

The password on the email

Advanced Business Computing Solutions, Inc.: WSUS SP1 Install Error - SMTPUserPassword: http://abc-solutions.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F616727CACD12943!477.entry Jeff said I must not have a Admin password over 12 characters...but I do.... as he did and...
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