Re: WSUS server synchronizing, but missing updates

Hi,

Have you checked that Critical Updates is selected in Classifications and that
your client OS is selected in Products? (Under Products and Classifications in
the Options window.)

Harry.


FLPeople wrote:

> - WSUS 3.0 (3.0.6000.374) Win2k3 R2+SP2 server had an issue, tempdb
> transaction log was missing, easy enough to fix.
> - Rebooted WSUS server, all was well, Synchronizations (3/day) were
> going, no sync errors anywhere. Even ran a server cleanup and a database
> defrag without problems (except for the known online defrag problem, but
> that's just a matter of restarting the db -
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961479).
> - I have automatic approvals set up for a few workstations, The Group
> Policy is set to update these machines nightly. Ran wuauclt /detectnow
> and they are reporting to WSUS server properly. This has been working
> fine for months.
> When these workstations visit the Windows Update website from the local
> PC, several critical updates are waiting for them: KB976325 KB970430
> KB971737 KB974318 KB974392 KB955759 KB973904 KB890830, these updates are
> not on the WSUS server, the server is synchronizing, as I recently got
> Windows Defender updates (this morning)... all syncs show successful.
> (Unrelated: but the Windows Catalog seems broken)
>
> However in the app log, I saw this two days ago (just once):
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Windows Server Update Services
> Event Category: Core
> Event ID: 10032
> Date: 12/12/2009
> Time: 12:49:03 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: WSUS
> Description:
> The server is failing to download some updates.
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
> 50 minutes later, I saw this:
> Event Type: Information
> Event Source: Windows Server Update Services
> Event Category: Core
> Event ID: 10030
> Date: 12/12/2009
> Time: 1:39:05 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: WSUS
> Description:
> The server is downloading updates successfully.
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
> Like I said, I am synchronizing fine, I just am not getting those
> updates (and some other newly-released critical updates for server
> 2003)... BITS is set to automatic, plenty of disk space, wsusutil
> checkhealth reports everything is fine. There are no inactive approvals,
> even uninstalled KB973917 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2009746).
> Everything appears healthy, so why aren't recent critical updates
> getting to my WSUS server from MS? Are these special?
>
>

"Harry Johnston [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi,
>
> Have you checked that Critical Updates is selected in Classifications and
> that your client OS is selected in Products? (Under Products and
> Classifications in the Options window.)

Except that KB976325 is a Security Update for IE (all IE versions, all
platforms, all architectures) and covers at least a half dozen product
categories.

As noted in my other reply -- I likely think it's a corrupted database
caused by whatever crashed the tempdb.



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