by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2022.10.29 | Published on 2021.10.28 | 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 2024.09.03 | Published on 2021.06.24 | 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 2023.07.25 | Published on 2021.06.16 | 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...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2022.10.29 | Published on 2021.05.26 | Guides, WSUS
I’m sorry…. You CAN’T import the .NET 3.5 Framework, RSAT tools, or other Optional Components into WSUS. Microsoft does not allow you to do this specifically for distributing these components through WSUS. Don’t worry, there IS a way to make...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2022.10.29 | Published on 2021.04.23 | Guides, WSUS
Sometimes your computers are to blame for WSUS crashing, more specifically, that extra data that is reported back to WSUS with regards to the hardware details of the computer. In all instances that I’ve seen of this extra data, the BIOS version data is the...
by Adam J. Marshall | Last updated 2022.10.29 | Published on 2020.10.06 | Guides, WSUS
What is wuauclt.exe? It stands for Windows Update Automatic Update CLienT There are many switches through the years that have been found, and with the help of Strings (Sysinternals), on a current version of Windows 10, you can see that the only ones listed are:...
