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Hi All, I have an issue with a couple of our VM's. for some reason they won't update and i get an error message when i try to run troubleshooter. Anyone know of a fix for this? Cheers!

Good Morning everyone, I am currently doing some research into WSUS and best practice for our Multi Academy Trust and figured i'd reach out to Edugeek to see how other Academy Trusts manage it across their sites. I have some questions that i've put together and wondered if you could share your thoughts? Do you have a central WSUS server that deploys to your sites and have you considered it? Do you just have a WSUS server per site? Do you cache the updates to your local server or do you pull them directly from the internet? How do you have your automatic-approval rules configured, Do you have a test classroom / machine that runs the updates first? Do you have a specific person who regularly checks to ensure it's working and managed properly and consistent? Any other insights or ideas about best practice would be welcomed. Kind regards, Jonny

I have been using my Google apps email address with outlook for 2 months now and i have had no problem. Now, every time i try add my account back onto Google apps outlook sync, i get an error saying "cannot connect to Google". After some research, i found some logs i can send to Google for diagnostics, and Google return with the following diagnosis: "Some timezone registries are missing on the host computer. Please ensure that the client computer has the latest Windows Updates. Check here for more information on Microsoft Updates". I checked my computer for updates, and i needed to install 80+. Even after fully updating the workstation, it is still coming back with that error. Please note, I am very doubtful it is anything to do with proxy settings or AV settings, as it is only the odd PC here and there which have this problem, most work without a hitch. I have attached screenshots of the log error on the Google website, and the error Google apps sync gives after authorizing the account. Any solutions/ideas to solve this issue would be much appreciated. Regards, Harry Greatorex

I have a school that have 2 sets of netbooks that hardly ever get turned off properly and therefore rarely get any Windows Updates installed (only when I'm there and have the time to get some of them out). I am wondering if anyone has a best practice for making sure updates get installed when there's not a technician around to force them to be installed? It is a bare metal Server 2012 to Windows 7 x86 clients. I turn on auto-download and install of updates. I turn on the default start menu shutdown action to say "install updates and shut down". Is there anything else I can do to try and push the updates out?

Symptoms of Error: After Windows Updates has been run, the PC is restarted and either before or after logging in, the screen appears black with just the mouse cursor, which can still be moved around the screen. The hard disk light on the PC may show activity, but this may only run for a short time. The PC stays in this state for some time. If left long enough, the screen my turn grey with an active mouse cursor, but the PC doesn't become usable. I have posted this problem in the Microsoft Community, with my diagnostics and progress of my investigation into the error. Please update either this post or the Community site with anything you find out about this on going problem. Cheers.

Hey guys, first off, new to the forums although you have been my main source of information for about 7 months, for some reason I never got round to registering, so no more excuses. Anyway, straight to the point. I am currently working in a college and we have some members of staff that take thier laptops everywhere which doesn't just include home and school but abroad as well, all work related. Either way, I have been called in to help another technician and first on the list was to setup WSUS. Something I have done a plenty of times before, however the issue I foresee happening is that when a member of staff comes back from an extended holiday they are going to have a laptop that is going to require X amount of updates. I am wondering if it is possible to set up the laptop to use WSUS when inside the college and on the network but also set it so it can recognise when its outside the network which will then trigger it to use windows updates from the internet as its second choice. Ensuring the laptop is always kept up-to-date. The college has 6 main servers, one of which is dedicated for WSUS alone, all Server 2008 R2. The setup is all group policy, no professional management systems. So main question, is it possible to have a combination of WSUS and internet, or am I just speaking rubbish. Until someone tells me I am, I might be looking for something thats just not possible.

Hi all, I've been searching hi and low for a olution to this issue but havent found anything solid as of yet. Basically my issue is that my Windows 10 clients will not download any updates from our new WSUS server. They can find the updates on the server but when actually starting the download they sit at 0% and will not proceeed from there. This is causing the machines to lock up on the "Getting Windows Ready" screen ob boot, and takes about 10 minutes for it to time out and actually load into Windows. So far I have tried adding the MIMe type for .esd "application/octet-stream", but that has not worked. I have tried changing the delivery optimization to Bypass, but that has made no difference. I have even tried the built in trouble shooter for Windows Update, but that reports that there are no issues. Has anyone had this before and if so, how on earth did you fix it? I'd rather not have to download all the updates manually and walk around to 100+ computers to install them. Open to any suggestions Thanks, Drayton95

I guess WSUS counts as deployment? Haha Having issues where some clients have updates that won't install. Some work, some don't. I'm fairly new to WSUS so just need some guidance on how I can resolve this without going to each individual PC and updating manually. TIA Gabe

I'm currently putting together a brief training session for my work colleagues (we're each taking a chapter of a Windows 7 book) to do with Windows Updates & IE. I was wondering, does anyone know if there is any specific reason why Microsoft chose to set the default Detect & Install time for automatic Windows Updates to 3.00am? Is there a logical reason or was it 3.00am when they programmed that part of Windows?