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Re: WSUS 3.0 SP1 BUG - Computers with same configuration are overridden!

 
 
Harry Johnston [MVP]
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      07-29-2009
techguru1 wrote:

> In summary, WSUS 3.0 obviously requires that Hosts *not* share the same
> name, despite / regardless of existing in unique domains.
>
> For example:
> MYSERVER-A.thisdomain.local
> MYSERVER-A.thatdomain.local
> ..will not work using WSUS 3.


This does work, so long as the two machines know what their fully qualified DNS
name is. You can check whether a computer knows it's DNS name under System
Properties, Computer Name, Full computer name.

> Since I have (and can only have) one domain for the entire deployed
> solution, it appears that I will be forced to rename all of my hosts to
> be unique.


Yes. Fully qualified DNS host names are expected to be unique.

Harry.
 
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