Consider the following scenario: You have WSUS installed on either Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 You install KB3159706 In this situation, WSUS fails to start correctly and thus fails to function. There are additional steps that are required to configure this update once it is installed. The steps can be found in …

Microsoft recently made a hotfix available that patches WSUS on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 to allow Windows 10 upgrade to version 1511. Installing the update is not, however, the only step that is required… Install the hotfix. This can be downloaded from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3095113. Ensure that …

During a recent WSUS upgrade from an old server to a new virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2, I saw an issue with the server not downloading updates correctly. The server appeared to synchronise correctly, but then no updates were downloaded. We originally saw an issue like this when we started using …

I’ve been a bit delayed writing this final blog post from Tech Ed EMEA 2008, so I’m back in the UK. The final day at Tech Ed 2008 EMEA IT was not quite as session filled as previous days, mainly because Rik and I had to be heading off to the airport shortly before 3pm to catch our flight home. The first presentation of …