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I had the same issue and fixed it with the setting up the .esd files in IIS.

I was able to find in the event viewer this error code: after researching it seems to be a pretty generic code. I'm able to get other updates to install, but I can't seem to get the version upgrade to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Lawrence thanks again for all the help. It was indeed revised updates being automatically approved. Another way I found this to be true was that one of the updates was approved by a user who is no longer here. I guess when it's a revised update it refers to the original approved account. This was definitely a new one for…

There is one rule in there "Default Automatic Approval Rule" It's not checked, but it's set for when an update is in a specific classification (critical Updates, Security Updates) approve the update for all computers. I did notice in the server sync logs that on 9/2 there were 4 new and 114 revised updates and on 9/9 there…

Still no luck here. In the mean time I was able to get the results I was looking for via group policy. -- Getting back to this topic, maybe I should set up a goto meeting and look into this? You are support for Solarwinds correct?

sorry here's the article: Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 Gets Extended Support -- Redmondmag.com

Just wanted to extend my thanks for your help and opinions here on thwack.

I'll give it a view. I'd prefer not to reset as I've read it just re-downloads all the updates again. Thanks again I'll let you know how it turns out.

I went there and under the advanced tab it has check marks for revisions to updates automatically approve new revisions of updates that were already approved and automatically decline updates when a new revision causes them to expire. My only question is why it would start just this month (my original post was incorrect it…

Still a bit lost on this one. If im going to call a bat in cmd, I must be in the directory of the said bat for it to start. How is this accomplished with the packageboot? Shouldnt the underlined xml code cover that? <program failureaction="stop" enabled="true" name="cmd.exe" type="exe" typeaction="runandwait"…

While I don't deny that what you're suggesting is correct and everything I've read seems to indicate that it is true. I'm wondering if this is related to my initial problem of the machines not reporting? In this article it mentions that you wont be able to install "feature updates", but seems to say that regular security…

Also just noticed another error which micht help in getting this figured out. I got a index was outside the array. I know this has been related to errors after installing KB3148812 which came out in April I think. I just checked and that update isn't on my server. I did notice that KB3159706 which just came out is supposed…

Yes we found that out after a call from Solarwinds tech support. They walked us through setting up the inventory through the domain which gave us the options we were looking for. Thanks for the quick response.

Sorry I left off the column headings. Yes that is a view from my all computers group the first date column is Last Contact the second date column is Last reported. When you say click "Check For Updates" do you mean from the client machine? I've done that and still don't see a change in the last reported date in the…

I'll give it a try. Got it scheduled to run each night at 2:00 am until it finishes successfully. Once it does I'll dial it back to once a week. I'll keep the tread posted. Thanks for the response.

Worked perfectly thanks for the help. One change It's not General Tasks it's General Settings. Thanks again.

Tried to run the troubleshooter said it fixed errors, but I still get the same error when trying to check for updates the date time error. I'll check the certificates as well, but like I said if it was a bad cert wouldn't all updates be failing? I'll let you know what I find. Thanks again.

I was just looking at that article as well. I will double check my certificates. The windowsupdate logfile returns the following: Which leads me to believe I've got some serious issues with my WSUS server. What ever they are it's not affecting win7 or server updates as these clients are reporting and updating fine. That's…

There hasnt been any changes or maintenance recently. I did put the service back to log on local, also disabled the service for now. I think that service is used for another sw product. When I googled the error i remember seeing a lot of results with network performance monitor. But from what i can see, the services that…

I tried running one of the reports as you suggested and got the following error: No management servers available to process the request. Thinking I might have to check my management groups one has all my WSUS servers and one has none. I might need to look into doing an initial setup again to get my Patchmanager in line.…

Lawrence thanks for the quick reply. I didn't think it was possible, but as I mentioned I was at a loss as to how they could have been approved. I checked the update approvals rule and found that they were being approved literally one second after the server received them by the logon that we use for the wsus server. It…

Just so I'm understanding this correctly I would need to decline very old updates before they get cleaned off my server? And going back to the downstream servers they should replicate the changes from my upstream server so once the updates have been declined and a cleanup run it should remove them from the downstream…

I'll see if I can find any more detail. It's such a vague message. I'll follow up if I find anything. I just don't know why it's only happening on certain downstream servers and not all of them.

I'll look over this over the next couple of days. What does that %modulepath% turn into? Is it the ' path="%windir%\system32 ' as in the above xml line?

Our WSUS server is 2012 r2 and shows our update services as version 6.3.9600.18228. My next question would be we have downstream servers in our remote locations, but these are 2008 R2. Would these not be able to patch to Windows 10? That might explain why some are working and some aren't working. Let me know if you need…

They show up as Windows (Version 10.0)

Sorry. It's Server 2012 R2 Only reason I'm thinking it's a update issue is that it started the day after updates were installed.

Just to update this. We did end up having to run the configuration wizard a second time. Then required SQL sysadmin permissions for the DB. At this point it looks like we have ran into the issue of our Primary WSUS server OS not matching out Downstream servers! The primary is on 2012 R2 and Downs are on 2008 R2. We had…

Actually trying this now! Looks like its working, but we may still need to get permissions from our SQL guy. We shall update if complications occur. Its just odd that the installation package didn't start the same wizard we are not running.

Thanks for the info to this point! So far we have been able to get our WSUS server up and running fine. Connected to the old database, synced downstream servers, even all of our custom groups were still intact! All is well right? Not exactly.. When we try to install the Patch Manager administration on our WSUS server we…