by Admin | Last updated 2024.10.16 | Published on 2024.10.16 | Blog, WSUS
Key Points: WSUS is not end of life. It is end of development and has been officially deprecated. Windows Server 2025 includes WSUS as a role and will be supported until at least the end of support for Windows Server 2025 which will take us to 2035. Microsoft’s...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2024.09.03 | Published on 2024.09.02 | Guides, WSUS
Sometimes WSUS has issues synchronizing with the upstream server – usually Microsoft, but it can be a local upstream server. Why these errors happen can be for many reasons. Firewall Microsoft requires several websites to be accessible through the firewall to...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2024.09.03 | Published on 2024.09.02 | Guides, WSUS
A WsusUtil reset does NOT reset WSUS to defaults or anything like that, contrary to what the word reset means. When you run WsusUtil reset, it goes through the metadata information stored in your WSUS database and verify that every update metadata row in the WSUS...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2024.09.03 | Published on 2022.11.09 | 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 2024.09.03 | Published on 2022.11.09 | 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 2023.05.20 | Published on 2022.06.02 | Guides, WSUS
If you try to install WSUS on Server 2022 using the Windows Internal Database (WID) or SQL Server you may get a “WSUS Post-deployment Configuration Failed” error message. If you go look at the Post-Install log, you will see:...
