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WSUS 3 downloads stalled
I have just recently installed WSUS 3 with SP1 on a SBS 2003. All workstations have been found and assigned to groups. I have syncronized with no issue and have approved almost all of the updates. The issue I am having is that the download status states that "Updates needing files: 909" and "Downloaded 1274.33 MB of 8481.82 MB". It has been stuck at these numbers for a few days now. How do I get it to download the rest of the updates so that I can finish updating?
Thank you,
Joe
Thank you,
Joe
tomcahill
try disabling and re-enabling the network card to give it a kick.
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Burns2007, that seems to have solved it. Now I have another issue, since it is downloading all the updates it is making anything else we do on the internet extremely slow. Is there any way to limit its bandwith or stop it now and have it restart this evening?
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks,
Joe
Just for everyone elses benefit, to stop the server downloading during business hours:
Configure the policy setting "Maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers" to limit the bandwidth consumption during your business hours. To achieve this set "Limit background transfer rate to =0= from =8am= to =5pm= At all other times Use all available unused bandwidth". Note, however, that this policy setting does not distinguish weekdays from weekends, so this will also limit throughput on Sat/Sun during daytime hours. Note also that the clients still will not be able to download during daytime hours due to the =0= setting. Ideally you'll determine what level of bandwidth on the WAN that you can allocate to the WSUS traffic, so that the clients can also use that available bandwidth during the day -- the significant point here being that the bandwidth throttling happens at the NIC, not only on the WAN.
You'll find this policy setting at Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Network | Background Intelligent Tranfer Service (BITS), and it's documented in Appendix E: Configuring BITS 2.0 and 3.0 for Download Performance of the WSUS Operations Guide.
Stolen from:
http://serverfault.com/questions/73759/how-can-i-make-my-wsus-server-download-updates-only-when-synchronizing
Configure the policy setting "Maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers" to limit the bandwidth consumption during your business hours. To achieve this set "Limit background transfer rate to =0= from =8am= to =5pm= At all other times Use all available unused bandwidth". Note, however, that this policy setting does not distinguish weekdays from weekends, so this will also limit throughput on Sat/Sun during daytime hours. Note also that the clients still will not be able to download during daytime hours due to the =0= setting. Ideally you'll determine what level of bandwidth on the WAN that you can allocate to the WSUS traffic, so that the clients can also use that available bandwidth during the day -- the significant point here being that the bandwidth throttling happens at the NIC, not only on the WAN.
You'll find this policy setting at Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Network | Background Intelligent Tranfer Service (BITS), and it's documented in Appendix E: Configuring BITS 2.0 and 3.0 for Download Performance of the WSUS Operations Guide.
Stolen from:
http://serverfault.com/questions/73759/how-can-i-make-my-wsus-server-download-updates-only-when-synchronizing