WSUS selfupdate not running

[diggory]

Just a note about WSUS.

 

I had a WSUS 3 server, which I could run the mmc consol for, however it wouldn't run updates.

I checked common places.

 

This forum seems to have a lot of helpful WSUS info:

WSUS Support Forums

 

However the issue happened to be with IUSR (anon web access user)

My WSUS server used to a DC, when it was demoted it removed the IUSR from the local users group.

 

I put the IUSR_(insert your server name here) back in the local user group, and a restart of IIS and 'update services' and clients started reporting in.

 

Before that, if you browsed to the WSUS page with http://wsusserver/selfupdate/iuident.cab - you'd get access denied - even if it looked like you had all the perms set correctly in IIS for WSUS.

 

Hope that helps someone

 

Ah yes, there is a page that gave me a clue on Microsoft's site:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920659

Edited December 8, 2009 by diggory

[ricki]

Hi

 

I had a problem like this when I demoted a wsus server and had to strip off wsus and reinstall it its a permissions things and I could not work out where.

 

Richard