Janet and John wsus question

[jamie-a]

I`ve set wsus up on server 2003, i have my gpo pointing to the server but for some reason no computers seem to show up any where in the update services mmc, does anyone have a list of items to check?

 

Thanks in advance.

[powdarrmonkey]

Just give them time If nothing's shown up in a couple of days time (leave the machines on) then worry about it.

[duncane]

Are you using port 8530 rather than port 80? If so, you'll need to append :8530 to the URL pointing at your server.

 

Also, to force a client to update, use: wuauclt /detectnow

 

It normally appears quite quickly in the list then.

 

(I only set up WSUS at my new school last week, so I'm still learning, but I think that's right.)

[FN-GM]

Do you sysprep your images?

 

By the way who is janet and john?

[jamie-a]

we new-sid the images.

 

Should it be pointing to 8530 or 8531 as iis lists 8531 as the ssl port? am i right as having the gpo pointing to https://servername:port number?

 

Is there anything I could browse to to check iis is running correctly?

[greatone]

There are a couple of diagnostic tools you can download:

 

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services Tools and Utilities

 

The Client Diagnostic tool and Server Diagnostic tool I have found to be helpful

 

Also look in the client windowsupdate.log in the Windows directory to see if it is talking to the WSUS server.

[FN-GM]

rename the attached text from WSUS_Fix.txt to WSUS_Fix.bat

 

Run it on the client, then see if it appears in WSUS.

WSUS_Fix.txt

[jamie-a]

fixed it seemed to be some ssl error once i changed the https for hhtp it worked.

 

Are there any security issues in doing this?

[FN-GM]

fixed it seemed to be some ssl error once i changed the https for hhtp it worked.

 

Are there any security issues in doing this?

 

On the internal LAN you should be fine. I dont think there is any senative data sent to and from WSUS