WSUS experiences

[Ric_]

@tosca925: might be worth adding your script(s) here? Just attach to your post.

[tosca925]

done

[alan-d]

Server 2003 sp1, IIS 6

 

I'm trying to update our SUS to WSUS - I get as far as 'Installing WMSDE - Installing New Services' - then it quits and roll back.

 

The error says 'Could not install MS SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine.'

 

The log files don't tell me a lot

 

I've tried editing the registry as per the MS KB

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{44EC053A-400F-11D0-9DCD000A0C90391D3}InprocServer32

 

Deleted the entry as suggested but no change.

 

Also tried unregistering the Atl.ll file and re-registering it.

 

Anyone else had this problem?

[Geoff]

http://msmvps.com/athif/articles/66059.aspx

[alan-d]

Thanks Geoff

 

Checked the rights and I'm installing locally but still no change

[Geoff]

Is it a SBS server?

[alan-d]

Nope 'Standard Edition' with sp1

[Geoff]

Does it have the 'Terminal Services' Role?

[alan-d]

Nope

 

Running out of options me thinks :?

[Geoff]

Out of ideas now.

[alan-d]

lol - thanks anyway

 

 

NEXT!!!!!

[alan-d]

Solved it - or should I say my technician did :oops:

 

Turned out that for some reason the SUS SQL server was not running :oops:

 

Moral of the story - check the obvious

 

I'm now going to hide somewhere :oops:

[Pear]

I have a problem with my WSUS server. Its almost working properly but I get this message on the main admin screen under the to do list:

 

Check your server configuration

One or more Update Service components could not be contacted. Check your server status and ensure that the Windows Server Update Service is running. Non-running services: SelfUpdate

 

When my server tries to update it gets to 33% of the download before failing. When my other clients try to update they don't get past 0%.

 

I've tried everything suggested on this page - http://www.wsuswiki.com/SelfUpdateTreeisnotworking - but I am beginning to think I might need to reinstall it again.

 

Two things that could be causing the problem though:

1. I have SUS still installed, somewhere, I deleted all the downloaded files and deleted the settings from IIS. But I got lots of error messages this morning telling me it couldn't sync.

 

2. I am trying to run all the upates from the original windows update site as I do not have room on my server to store the files.

[apeo]

Was your wsus ever working or is it a new install.. Do your updates get downloaded from your server or directly from the ms site?

[Pear]

Its a new install and its never worked with regards to updating clients, I only have one computer that has tried to download and install updates, that failed. The updates are supposed to come from MS site.

[apeo]

Ok at the min i think it could be 1 of 2 things or may be both... if your computers are not appearing on you wsus server then there is a problem with you wsus gpo config and in particular the 'Specify intranet Microsoft update service location'. This should be something like 'http://servername' and if you have not changed the port number on the wsus server it should be 'http://servername:portnumber'. The second thing you should check is on the clients and its the winhttp settings, type proxycfg on an xp machine and you will get a the winhttp proxy setting (its not your ie proxy). This should be set if you have a proxy (i assume you have) and you should also set it to bypass the proxy for your server. Hope that helps.

[DMcCoy]

Do you have ssl enabled for the site? I turned it on here after it complained, only to discover that you can only enable ssl for certain folders.

[Pear]

It was nothing in proxycfg causing the problems. Is there a setting for it in GPO or do I have to make a script for all the 2000/XP workstations ?

 

I haven't tried ssl yet but I shall watch out for that.

[apeo]

As far as i know there is not gpo setting (annoying i know, not to mention stupid but are you really surprised with MS) so what i did was to run a logon script. I created a gpo that ran a bat file when the computers starts up, the bat file just ran proxycfg to set the appropriate settings ie

 

proxycfg -p proxy.lea.org:portnumber server1;server2;""

 

I set the gpo to run on all computers on the network and left it on for a week then disabled it(hopefully most of the computers would have been turned on by then, laptops are a problem tho).

[thom]

In addition to apeo's comments, I use group policy to set the proxy settings for IE.

I then run this line on the login script

proxycfg -u

This imports the setiings from IE to winHTTP so it keeps everything up to date.

 

With this in mind I would like to add that I cannot get WSUS to work either! I get a message on the WSUS home page about no computers are set up even though they are according to the WSUS GPOs. This is on a new windows 2003 sp1 server. IT's a shame because SUS worked immediatley on our old 2000 server. I've given up for the time being!

[apeo]

@thom: have you included the bypass list in your config of ie proxy through gpo? and check to see which port wsusis on.

[pete]

Has anyone managed to do the initial WSUS sync through an embc proxy (or any proxy running SWS 3.0?).

 

I've been through the MS and unofficial guides and as far as I can see, I've done everything right, but it's not syncing with an:

 

 WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to remote server.  ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object 

 

The server is also running SUS which syncs fine using the same proxy settings and the behaviour is replicated on a test box created to double-check that there wasn't anything peculiar to SUS breaking it.

[apeo]

We had a problem at first with sync but found out that the proxy you set must be the server name and not its unc path. Does that help?

[mullet_man]

I have installed WSUS on an old Windows 2000 server that we use for ghosting, and it is synching fine, and I have pointed one machine to it as a test.

 

I have told it to store files locally and wants to download around 7 gig of files, but has been stuck at 0% for a day now.

 

Anyone have any ideas?

[Dos_Box]

Try checking out your server spec and prerequistes here.....

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updateservices/evaluation/faqs.mspx

It's under 'Setup and deployment'