Wsus servername must now change

[jakess]

I have setup WSUS on 2003 standalone server but now needs to change to the name of the server. Computers in already getting the updates from WSUS with GPO.
What affect will this have and what needs to be done?

 

[markdmac]

I have setup WSUS on 2003 standalone server but now needs to change to the name of the server

Sorry the bolded part of this statement does not make sense.

Can you please clarify? You wish to change the name of the WSUS server? Why?

You can probably get away with this if you create a DNS entry for the current name with the IP address the server will have after the rename. That way any clients looking for the old name will get resolved to the server still.



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[jakess]

We need to add our Intranet site to this server and find it will be easier to rename our WSUS server to the name our intranet IIS server.
There are too many excisting links to our old web servername.

Makes sense adding intranet site to new WSUS server and rename server to old intranet servername hoping WSUS will continue to work
Changing the WSUS servername in the GPO solve the problem? or will registry entries cause conflict

 

[markdmac]

That was why I asked. You do NOT need to change the server name and should not change it.

You will have far fewer problems if you do the following.

Simply create a host entry for the Intranet site name and give it the IP of the WSUS server in your DNS. In IIS on the WSUS server create a HOST HEADER entry for the Intranet site. This will preserve the name within the site. Set the host header by right clicking the web site and choosing properies in IIS. Then click the Advanced button next to the IP address.

The WSUS clients won't need to re-register this way and your Intranet clients won't know the difference either.

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[markdmac]

Jakess did you give this a try?

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[jakess]

Sorry i was away on MS training.
I left WSUS server the way it was, but do have another WSUS question.

We have only 72 of 130 pc's showing up in WSUS???
We have win2000 and XP pc's

 

[markdmac]

And how are you pushing down the WSUS settings? Via GPO or registry modification?

Have you run WUAUCLT /detectnow on the machines not showing up?

Were the machines not showing up imaged using Ghost?
Automatic Updates with WSUS doesn’t work if workstation is installed via Disk Imaging / Disk Cloning;

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555351

If you have multiple computers with this behavior, then you can add a logon script which can do the task automatically. Note this has to be done only once.

====================================================================================
@echo off
Echo Save the batch file "AU_Clean_SID.cmd". This batch file will do the following:
Echo 1.    Stop the wuauserv service
Echo 2.    Delete the AccountDomainSid registry key (if it exists)
Echo 3.    Delete the PingID registry key (if it exists)
Echo 4.    Delete the SusClientId registry key (if it exists)
Echo 5.    Restart the wuauserv service
Echo 6.    Resets the Authorization Cookie
Pause
@echo on
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" /v SusClientId /f
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow
Pause
====================================================================================

These registry entries will be re-created at the next detection cycle.


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Mark

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[jakess]

Yes i have ghost most of them and thought that is the problem because of SID issues.
i have configured GPO to push out WSUS settings but have change the computergroup name to something else now and all computer are now under the unassigned group and not the new group name.