Master Slave WSUS/SUS synchronization

Recently I've noticed a decline in the updates applied to my network
infrastructure. As a result I took a look at the synchronization log file and
noticed the following statements:

Manual Sync Started- Monday, October 24, 2005 11:01:54 AM Failed
Updates Added:
None
Updates Removed:
None
Reissued Update(s):
None
Errors:
Failed to download from URL 'http://mastersus/aucatalog1.cab'. (Error
0x80190194: HTTP error 404. The system cannot find the file specified.)
Sync Finished-Monday, October 24, 2005 11:01:54 AM

The 'mastersus' named above is a master server for which my SUS server is a
slave server. They approve updates, I just use them on my network.

Looking into this error I found the following document
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;830700 which I
applied to the server. Since this did not seem to help, I restarted the SUS
service, and even restarted the whole server, but all to no avail. The error
remains.

As such I've been looking into the possible causes and found out that around
the time the updates started failing the mastersus-server (which is beyond my
control) has appearantly been updated to WSUS.

The question now is: Does SUS indeed have issues replicating from a WSUS
machine?

If that is the case I'm faced with a likely upgrade of SUS to WSUS, for
which I would need to gather information on the perils and the pitfals.
Seeing the amount of work I currently have this is not really an appealing
thought. I know the SUS infrastructure works, I am not sure a WSUS (seeing
the clients would seem to require some Automatic Updates client installed,
which I'd need to check for) would work in my environment right off the bat.

Does anyone have information or thoughts about this, and cares to share
them? Thanks in advance for any and all replies.

Hi,

It is not possible to synchronize between a SUS server and a
WSUS server.


And a fyi:

Please post WSUS related issues to the newsgroup dedicated to WSUS:
microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services

WebNews link to the WSUS newsgroup:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...pdate_services


Regards,
Torgeir

Neko- wrote:

> Recently I've noticed a decline in the updates applied to my network
> infrastructure. As a result I took a look at the synchronization log file and
> noticed the following statements:
>
> Manual Sync Started- Monday, October 24, 2005 11:01:54 AM Failed
> Updates Added:
> None
> Updates Removed:
> None
> Reissued Update(s):
> None
> Errors:
> Failed to download from URL 'http://mastersus/aucatalog1.cab'. (Error
> 0x80190194: HTTP error 404. The system cannot find the file specified.)
> Sync Finished-Monday, October 24, 2005 11:01:54 AM
>
> The 'mastersus' named above is a master server for which my SUS server is a
> slave server. They approve updates, I just use them on my network.
>
> Looking into this error I found the following document
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;830700 which I
> applied to the server. Since this did not seem to help, I restarted the SUS
> service, and even restarted the whole server, but all to no avail. The error
> remains.
>
> As such I've been looking into the possible causes and found out that around
> the time the updates started failing the mastersus-server (which is beyond my
> control) has appearantly been updated to WSUS.
>
> The question now is: Does SUS indeed have issues replicating from a WSUS
> machine?
>
> If that is the case I'm faced with a likely upgrade of SUS to WSUS, for
> which I would need to gather information on the perils and the pitfals.
> Seeing the amount of work I currently have this is not really an appealing
> thought. I know the SUS infrastructure works, I am not sure a WSUS (seeing
> the clients would seem to require some Automatic Updates client installed,
> which I'd need to check for) would work in my environment right off the bat.
>
> Does anyone have information or thoughts about this, and cares to share
> them? Thanks in advance for any and all replies.


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