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WSUS on Virtual Server 2005

Asked by karinerivet in Microsoft Virtual Server, Windows 2003 Server, MS Forefront-ISA

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We had been running WSUS on a physical server and all of our workstations were able to successfully connect to and download updates from the server.  While that installation was running on the physical server, I did a new installation of WSUS in a virtual server running on Virtual Server 2005.  After completing the installation I updated our WSUS GPO to direct our workstations to the new server.  After a few days, once I saw that workstations were starting to report to the new server I went ahead and uninstalled WSUS from the old physical server.  Now I have several workstations that are either listed as Not yet reported or are listed as normal, but havent connected in over a month.  On several of the workstations that are listed as Not yet reported I tried running wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow and resolved a few of them, but others are still left in the same state.  I also tried from several of the workstations going to the Windows Update site to download and install the latest Windows Update client and updates, but theyre still left in the same state.  All of our servers and many of our workstations are successfully communicating with the WSUS server, but many of our workstations are showing up as Not yet reported or out of date and I dont know why.  Are there any known issues with running WSUS on Virtual Server 2005?  Do you have any idea what might be causing this and how we might fix it?Start Free Trial
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Zones: Microsoft Virtual Server, Windows 2003 Server, MS Forefront-ISA
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