Force wsus update windows 2008 r2

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I've tested it on both Windows 7 and Windows 10 clients successfully. If you want to run centrally from your WSUS server, I found that you can't use PowerShell remoting because of some kind of permissions thing.

There may be a way around that but for now I found that psexec works fine. So below is a function you can add to your profile. This has been a life changer in terms of improving my frustration level with managing WSUS.

I hope you find it useful. Skip to comment form. Hi Robbie. And just like you I tried a lot of Things. One more question: Does your script also work if no one is actually logged on interactively? Yes, the script works regardless if a user is logged in or not as you are logging in yourself via psexec. Yes there is. Your issue sounds more fundamental to your WSUS installation. The two big things to check are:.

I have run through your steps above and they are all indicating correct connection with the WSUS server. In my case, a system proxy was set and the proxy was blocking the communication. That could cause some people problems, for example if they are using set-strictmode.

So, presumably one can leave that out of the code. I ran into this issue. Awesome, that works! This works! I second that, Chapeau Robbie!

Got a couple of those COM exceptions but after a reboot they were all gone. Updates but most of the time there is no result no error and it doesnt back to the prompt. Any idea? Thank you in advance.

Thanks so much Robbie! I always love when one guy out of thousands finds a way to make something work where no one else before him was able to! Works like a charm! I run the command you suggested and it was all happy in 30 seconds. I wish i knew about this command earlier. Thanks Andy. Very good solution but, for me, works only if last report is not older than 8 days. If the last report is older than 8 days Nothing happens…. We have replacing our server, so I have configured the wsus in new server, and changed the GPO as accordingly.

But my client machine are not reporting to my new wsus server. As I checked group policy also got updated to client machines. Can you please help me on this? Note : Now client machines are not reporting to old wsus server also. I cannot believe how bad the Microsoft patching system is in terms of reporting and troubleshooting.

Especially now on windows ten where it is even more horrific. This has helped massively! Use batchpatch. It works really really good. Really my freinds, thanks you so much for share your knowlegde. My thanks from Venezuela. A rainbow should shoot out the top of this web page every time you open it!!!!!!!! I made 2 batches I copy into an elevated command prompt since you have to wait a minute or two between the PS command and the wuauclt command.

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Any advice? This has been frustrating me for a while. Decided to try this. Unfortunately, this joins the other , results in not working. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff microsoft. Secondly; simply copy and paste the last lines of the WindowUpdate. Here is the log. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Server TechCenter. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question.

Quick access. Search related threads. Choosing "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update" works fine. It shows all the pending updates including those we have not approved for installation and allows them to be installed. Doing so with all Important updates has reduced the number reported as pending in WSUS from to 12, so the server is definitely reporting successfully. Unfortunately there is still no sign of a Windows Updates system tray icon to install the remaining 12 updates, and clicking "Check for updates" from the Windows Update section in Control Panel still displays a "Windows is up to date" message.

I then move it into the correct container and wait for it to report, and it goes back to saying there are 12 pending updates, but the server itself still refuses to acknowledge them. I have compared the output from the WindowsUpdate. Each time the WindowsUpdate. But for some reason one of the servers is insisting that there are no updates available from WSUS.

The following steps resolved the issue:. After a few minutes the Windows Updates system tray icon appeared and pending updates could be installed. The renamed old folder can then be safely deleted. This could be several things. I've seen updates unpredictably break WSUS clients, for example.

I don't think I've seen a client incorrectly report no updates, however, except when there was a prerequisite update missing. This is the key piece of information. What this log entry means is that there are no updates available for this client at this time. Availability of updates in a WSUS environment requires two conditions: - The update is approved for a target group of which the client is an assigned member.

In the majority of cases, this condition occurs because the file s for the approved update s are not yet downloaded to the WSUS server. Sometimes this is a function of having approved too many updates and clogging up the download queue with hundreds of files involving tens of gigabytes of downloads. Sometimes it's a function of downloads actually failing, usually because a web filter or proxy server is interfering.

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