darlodge

Is anyone running this.

Its the replacment to WUS and SUS.

Anyone migrated from SUS2.0 to WSUS?
Anyone having any problems?
Anyone help me?

Darren

ajm

Just migrated from SUS to WSUS on Sunday night.... seems to be running ok so far!

What do you need to know?

darlodge

Cheers ajm,

I was being a donkey, I'd set all the Group Policy settings via a Computer Configuration Policy and I was receiving an error about AU Disabled.

I then realised, I'd not moved any computers in AD to enable the policy to run on my test OU!!! Doh.

Its working fine now in our test environment. I'm moving the first of the LIVE PC's in tonight and then department by department.

Just one question. How many sites are you updating? We have 6 sites and plan on having 1 main WSUS server (in Brighton) and then 5 upstream servers to limit the bandwidth use.

Darren

ajm

Glad you got it sorted... are you also using group policy to sort the computers into WSUS groups? If so make sure you set up the group in WSUS first and spell it the same as you spell it in the GP settings.... unlike I did!

Another handy command for testing, if you don't know it already, is:

wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow

to force a client to contact the WSUS server and check for updates immediately.


We have 4 sites, but 3 are small <10 user offices, everything runs off one central WSUS server. No major bandwidth problems..... although if a big update comes along (like XP SP2) I usually withold the update for the remote PC's until I can make other arrangements!

darlodge

Thanks for the reply.

wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow was a god send when I was testing so glad they added this.

Darren

ajm

Yes, before this I used to use a little script that stopped the update service, deleted the last updated & next update due registry keys and restarted the service, but it was a bit hit and miss for some reason. Still think a "update" command is in order... in fact I think I might just add the above command to a batch file and dump in system32 on my standard image!

darlodge

I think I had the same script

Darren