WUSTATUSSERVER

Just a quick question that I have never found any information on. In what
scenario would you ever have the name in wuserver and WUstatusServer be
different. I don't think I have ever heard of a scenario or instructions
other that these should always be the same.

"Daniel V" <> wrote in message
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> Just a quick question that I have never found any information on. In what
> scenario would you ever have the name in wuserver and WUstatusServer be
> different.

None.

> I don't think I have ever heard of a scenario or instructions
> other that these should always be the same.

There is none documented. In fact, the WUAgent team won't even discuss why
there are two separate values to begin with.

The speculation (mostly mine, understand) -- is that at one point way early
in the development of the AU client there was thought given to allowing
detection/download to be split from reporting. If so, it's never happened.

My favorite question now is why they just don't modify the WUAgent to
*ignore* the WUStatusServer value, and modify the policy definition to quit
creating the WUStatusServer value because the only value of real
significance is the WUServer value. This would eliminate all issues when
these two values don't match.



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Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP:EA, MCDBA
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)

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Thanks for the info.