Hello,

I have a questions with WSUS 3.0 clients not checking in to my server. It has been over 30 days since any of the clients have checked in. (about 15clients) None of the clients have been cloned so duplicate SIDs are not an issue. I have tried the following on the clients with no success:

-wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow
-gpudate.exe /force

My question is: would I be better off to reinstall the WSUS server or is there a fix I could run on the server for the clients to check in? Thank you for any help.

-R

I had a similar problem before, on the GPO where you put the WSUS details

try using the IP instead of the Name so for example

 "WUServer"=http://192.168.1.100:8530

instead of

"WUServer"="http://wsusserver

 Remember to put the port as well.

 

I tried that on a couple clients and after several hours they still did not check in. If I reinstall the WSUS server, would I just have to import the old database to avoid having to download all the updates again? Thanks

 

-R

it's not the server....... if some clients are logging in, its a client problem. Update all the clients to the latest patches, especially .net etc

when you say you tried it on a couple of clients...  do you mean this isnt set up through a group policy? - that would definetly point to a client issue.

Her's a couple more ideas.....

Start, Run,  

regsvr32 /s wuapi.dll

regsvr32 /s wups.dll

regsvr32 /s wuaueng.dll

regsvr32 /s wucltui.dll

regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll

net start wuauserv

wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow

 Or Try on one of the client boxes going to;

http://enter-wsus-server-name-here/ClientWebService/client.asmx

and see if you can get to that page.

The network only has 10 total clients. All are set up to point to the WSUS server via group policy. <http://wsusservername> It was working fine until a few weeks ago. I had to physically move the server(disconnect/reconnect etc etc) All of a sudden all clients except for the host server stopped checking in. I ran those commands on some of the clients to force them to check in, and it did not work.

Could it be something simple like bad data port? wrong vlan ?

 

Ahhh...I fixed it. Port 80 on the windows firewall on the WSUS server was closed. So dumb but at least I caught it. Once I opened it, clients started checking in within minutes.

Thanks for your help

 

-R

No problem, glad you found the problem, and it was such an easy fix :D