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Comments:

From dcabai - 8/12/08 1:54 PM

Hi, first I want to thank you for this great site about WSUS. I really love WSUS so I want to contribute with the things that I can. I help others in forums and newsgroups most of all in spanish. In my website I make some articles about WSUS and SCE too. So the thing that I want to cmment is that I group a lot of Visio Stencils to make a WSUS & SCE Visio Stencils in order to generate diagrams about Security.

I want to share this Stencils with you. so here is the link and I hope you like it.

http://www.cabai.com.ar/2008/07/wsus-sce-security-visio-stencils-no-oficial.html

Regards,

Diego Cabai
http://www.cabai.com.ar

From sbeldom - 6/19/08 1:26 PM

Looking for a soluition to what is probably a common problem for many. We have several users who are remote users. They VPN into our network and are concerned about the bandwith that would be used for updates. Is there a way to segregate this group of users so they get their updates from Microsofts website but are still part of WSUS?

From ccccp - 11/12/07 10:43 PM

solution for error Parameter name: Title ---> System.ArgumentException: add it to WSUS-SERVER FAQ

URL1 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services&p=1&tid=9be226b6-dcf8-48ae-aa85-db5d7d021e2d

URL2 http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=7:19397-47 (russian)

1) Open CMD prompt
2) SET WSUS_DB=%COMPUTERNAME%\WSUS
3) OSQL -S %WSUS_DB% -E
4) 1> USE SUSDB
5) 2> Update tbPrecomputedCategoryLocalizedProperty
6) 3> Set Title = Replace(Title, '"', '')
7) 4> Where Title like '%"%'
8) 5> go
9) 1> Update tbPreComputedLocalizedProperty
10) 2> Set Title = Replace(Title, '"', '')
11) 3> Where Title like '%"%'
12) 4> go
13) 1> quit
This resolved my problems.

From patchmonkey - 4/23/07 3:35 PM

This may be a stupid question but never the less one I cannot seem to find an answer to. I can find all sorts of information on forcing updates from the client side but cannot find any information on forcing the server to update client information in regards to updates installed after Installation. The situation I have is, we have several laptops that don't spend a lot of time on the network. I will bring them in, force updates and give them back to their respective users. The problem is I can't leave them connected to the network for an extended period of time waiting for WSUS to update their information. Is there a way to force the server to update this info? "wuauclt /detectnow" doesn't seem to do it. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

From greggina - 2/19/07 3:27 PM

Help, WSUS - Cannot Download Any updates

Hi,

I have a problem with my WSUS Server. My Wsus server will not connect and download any updates. Web Marshall on our site has been configured for IP authentication so our Wsus Sever doesn’t need a username or password to connect to the internet. We connect to the internet using port 8082. Browsing the internet with IE works fine on the Wsus server. I can connect to any site. But Wsus fails to connect. Below are some logs. It looks like a permisson problem but our Web Marshall team says there is nothing wrong with there end becuase I can browse the net using IE. Any help on this will be great. Thanks

2007-02-19 03:18:42.136 UTC Warning wsusservice.134 WebServiceCommunicationHelper.ProcessWebServiceProxyException ProcessWebServiceProxyException found Exception was WebException. Action: Retry. Exception Details: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus()
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
   at System.Net.Connection.TunnelThroughProxy(Uri proxy, HttpWebRequest originalRequest, Socket& socket)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus()
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
   at Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSyncWebServices.ServerSync.ServerSyncProxy.GetAuthConfig()
   at Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSync.ServerSyncLib.InternetGetServerAuthConfig(ServerSyncProxy proxy, WebServiceCommunicationHelper webServiceHelper)
2007-02-19 03:18:42.147 UTC Error wsusservice.134 WebServiceCommunicationHelper.ProcessWebServiceProxyException ProcessWebServiceProxyException found Exception was WebException but Retry Limit Exceeded. Action: No Retry, Fail. Exception Details: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

From Samee - 5/18/06 1:36 AM

Hi my name is Sameer.

I working in PSC. Currently I hv WSUS installed on Windows 2000 server and working absolutly perfect.

Now my management want to shift /move this WSUS server (HP) to the new server which has a different name. So pls anyone can guide me step by step how to move all the database, settings and configuration to new server which got diff name & hardware (IBM xSeries).

Waiting for your help and thanking you in anticipation.

Sameer .. Sameer_hk@ yahoo.com.

Last Modified 5/1/07 7:17 AM

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