Windows 2003 WSUS Issue

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I hope someone can help me as I have been struggling with this for a couple
days now, I will keep it as simple as possible...

I took over a network administration position at my job, and I am trying to
get our client pc's that are on our domain to download Windows Updates, but
none of them will install them, they all Fail (they seem to download the
updates just fine). If I build a new PC, I can download and install the
updates just fine, but the second I join the PC to the Domain, it fails.

All 10 PC's are part of the same Group in Active Directory, and I have
verified that all the Windows Update settings are set at Not Configured in
both Computer and User Configurations, as well as everything in the Windows
Installer menu just in case that made a difference. The clients still fail
the installs.

So then I downloaded the WSUS and get it all configured correctly, add the
computers, etc. The WSUS sees the computers, and it looks like everythings
setup correctly, but still nothing. The WSUS Management Console even shows
the client PC's syncing with the server at the proper times, but nothing gets
installed.

We have a SOHO Watchguard Firebox, but I don't think theres anything on
there that would mess with it is there? Everything else works fine it seems
like.

Also, the WSUS is installed on our Domain Controller, on a 2nd hard drive,
which is Shared with the right permissions set for the Users.

So...am I missing something? I made a small server at home and did the same
thing a while back and it all worked fine, so I am stumped. I have software
that I need to get on these PC's but it requires some Microsoft updates, but
it just ain't happenin.

Thanks in advance
 
What does the event log say, if anything?
and the windowsupdate.log on both server/client?
the GPO on teh server is set to?

I know I had a simillar problem, but ofc that was in an Non-AD
enviroment with Novell..:P
But anyways, when I did my reg file (since I couldn´t use GPO´s)
There was an value which handeled the "install process" or what to call
it..:)

I´m not an expert, but it´s my thoughts atleast..:P


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On Jul 11, 10:22 am, rich7779 <rich7...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I hope someone can help me as I have been struggling with this for a couple
> days now, I will keep it as simple as possible...
>
> I took over a network administration position at my job, and I am trying to
> get our client pc's that are on our domain to download Windows Updates, but
> none of them will install them, they all Fail (they seem to download the
> updates just fine). If I build a new PC, I can download and install the
> updates just fine, but the second I join the PC to the Domain, it fails.
>
> All 10 PC's are part of the same Group in Active Directory, and I have
> verified that all the Windows Update settings are set at Not Configured in
> both Computer and User Configurations, as well as everything in the Windows
> Installer menu just in case that made a difference. The clients still fail
> the installs.
>
> So then I downloaded the WSUS and get it all configured correctly, add the
> computers, etc. The WSUS sees the computers, and it looks like everythings
> setup correctly, but still nothing. The WSUS Management Console even shows
> the client PC's syncing with the server at the proper times, but nothing gets
> installed.
>
> We have a SOHO Watchguard Firebox, but I don't think theres anything on
> there that would mess with it is there? Everything else works fine it seems
> like.
>
> Also, the WSUS is installed on our Domain Controller, on a 2nd hard drive,
> which is Shared with the right permissions set for the Users.
>
> So...am I missing something? I made a small server at home and did the same
> thing a while back and it all worked fine, so I am stumped. I have software
> that I need to get on these PC's but it requires some Microsoft updates, but
> it just ain't happenin.
>
> Thanks in advance

Sometimes this happens if the computers have been ghosted with the
same security IDs. When a ghost image is created with sysprep new
security IDs should be created. If not then WSUS doesn't send them
updates.
 
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