WSUS problem in Windows SBS 2011
Hi Experts,
Let met start by confessing I'm a newbie in VMWare and SBS 2011.
I installed two servers (one SBS and one Standard 2008 R2) on an ESXI host. I didn't do anything fancy. My first impression of SBS 2011 is quite positive. Everything works except for WSUS.
It finds all kinds of updates for the Windows Server 2008 and all client computers, but nothing for the SBS server. Here the date of the last update scan still points to the moment of installation two weeks ago. All clients and the other server have a recent date filled in here. All updates have status "unknown". When I try to start windows update manually, the server starts an infinite search.
When I run a few standard reports, the all say WSUS is working perfectly.
What could have gone wrong?
Let met start by confessing I'm a newbie in VMWare and SBS 2011.
I installed two servers (one SBS and one Standard 2008 R2) on an ESXI host. I didn't do anything fancy. My first impression of SBS 2011 is quite positive. Everything works except for WSUS.
It finds all kinds of updates for the Windows Server 2008 and all client computers, but nothing for the SBS server. Here the date of the last update scan still points to the moment of installation two weeks ago. All clients and the other server have a recent date filled in here. All updates have status "unknown". When I try to start windows update manually, the server starts an infinite search.
When I run a few standard reports, the all say WSUS is working perfectly.
What could have gone wrong?
Cris Hanna
Are you approving the updates in the SBS console? And remember that if an update says it's for Windows Server 2008 it should also show you how many computers it needs to go on...is it showing you one or two?
ASKER
Hi,
Thanks for the reaction. Yes I do approve updates.
When I look at the details of any of the updates I get some info like in the screendump attached here.
tserver is our SBS 2011 server. Every update (there are 95) has the same status for tserver: unknown.
I was hoping a manual update on de windows update server would help me, but there tserver starts looking for new updates for ever.
When I just installed the server wsus did find some updates for tserver and I could even install some of them.
Perhaps uninstalling these updates could help me???
8-09-2011-20-47-25.jpg
Thanks for the reaction. Yes I do approve updates.
When I look at the details of any of the updates I get some info like in the screendump attached here.
tserver is our SBS 2011 server. Every update (there are 95) has the same status for tserver: unknown.
I was hoping a manual update on de windows update server would help me, but there tserver starts looking for new updates for ever.
When I just installed the server wsus did find some updates for tserver and I could even install some of them.
Perhaps uninstalling these updates could help me???
8-09-2011-20-47-25.jpg
ASKER
I looked in control panel at the installed updates. It shows the same update five times (see screendump). I'm not able to uninstall them. Windows says the patch packet could not be opened.
Maybe this information is helpful.
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Maybe this information is helpful.
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I would probably suggest following the article in the link to fix WSUS
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd443475(WS.10).aspx
The article is for SBS 2008 but works for 2011 as well
Can't say why you can't uninstall
But WSUS in SBS 2011 normally works quite well
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd443475(WS.10).aspx
The article is for SBS 2008 but works for 2011 as well
Can't say why you can't uninstall
But WSUS in SBS 2011 normally works quite well
ASKER
Hi CrisHanna,
There is a similar article for SBS 2011, and I followed it already. It does not find any problems in WSUS. As the matter of fact I have the feeling it's not WSUS itself that is causing the problem. I think there has been a problem with a particular update on the SBS server.
Actually Server Manager isn't working either. I can't add roles or features. It tries to collect all roles and featues and this results in an error.
There is a similar article for SBS 2011, and I followed it already. It does not find any problems in WSUS. As the matter of fact I have the feeling it's not WSUS itself that is causing the problem. I think there has been a problem with a particular update on the SBS server.
Actually Server Manager isn't working either. I can't add roles or features. It tries to collect all roles and featues and this results in an error.
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I solved the problem myself. The malfunctions of WSUS was related to the malfunction of the server manager. The solution I followed is described in:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27293745/WSUS-problem-in-Windows-SBS-2011.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27293745/WSUS-problem-in-Windows-SBS-2011.html