Previously, I had an issue with imaged servers not showing up in the WSUS management consol. I recently found some posts on it and I changed the SusClientID on all of the machines. It worked great for 4 out of 7 of the machines, but I am still having issues on 3. They are receiving new SusClientIDs but still not showing up in WSUS. Nothing in the event logs. Any ideas?
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WSUS- imaged servers not present
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JackOfSomeTrades
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Does this help at all:
I've not done any work with imaged Servers, but I have recently had problems with Servers that were trying to update from our old WSUS Server - even though checking in, they won't update, because they were still trying to install a bunch of updates from the old server - won't update to the new WSUS Server until the updates are installed - won't install updates because the old server has gone!!
On Client (Server): net stop "automatic updates" (if 2003), net stop "windows updates" if 2008, delete contents of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution, 'net start [...]' [the above service] (in 2008 you might have to 'Disable' the service after stopping it, as it seems to restart itself...
This will re-create the SoftwareDistribution subfolders, including the SelfUpdate 'stuff'.
Then run a 'wuauclt /detectnow' from cmd prompt.
There is also a 'wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow' which you might have to run - this generates the new SUSClientID's and things - but I think you have to delete the existing keys in the registry first - its all in the doc in the link above.
Good luck!
Thanks, Mark
I've not done any work with imaged Servers, but I have recently had problems with Servers that were trying to update from our old WSUS Server - even though checking in, they won't update, because they were still trying to install a bunch of updates from the old server - won't update to the new WSUS Server until the updates are installed - won't install updates because the old server has gone!!
On Client (Server): net stop "automatic updates" (if 2003), net stop "windows updates" if 2008, delete contents of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution, 'net start [...]' [the above service] (in 2008 you might have to 'Disable' the service after stopping it, as it seems to restart itself...
This will re-create the SoftwareDistribution subfolders, including the SelfUpdate 'stuff'.
Then run a 'wuauclt /detectnow' from cmd prompt.
There is also a 'wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow' which you might have to run - this generates the new SUSClientID's and things - but I think you have to delete the existing keys in the registry first - its all in the doc in the link above.
Good luck!
Thanks, Mark
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