Re: WSUS and Terminal Services

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:44:23 +0530, hmirza <> wrote:

>
>Hello Again
>
>Guys I dont see participating blades of my Cluster Farm in WSUS. If I
>go into one and specifically show it the way (wuauclt.exe /detectnow) to
>WSUS then only that specific member of Farm start showing up in WSUS! If
>I do the same with another blade then it basically just replaces the
>name of previous one in WSUS!
>
>Is there a way to get all of the blades to show up in WSUS
>simultaniously?

I don't know much about Clusters but this is a symptom of all the machines being
a clone. There is a reg key called SUSClientID and if that is duplicated (by
cloning say) then the clients will do exactly what you are describing.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903262
>
>Best Regards
>H
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"hmirza" <> wrote in message
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> Yes I believe you are right but what to do about it, how to get around
> this issue?

Read the KB article that Dave provided, and follow the instructions in the
article!


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