Of late, several customers have reached out to my team asking why their Windows 10 1511 and 1607 clients, which are managed by WSUS or SCCM are going online to Microsoft update to download updates. Not only the clients are reaching out to external Microsoft URL, outside of the internal update endpoint, but they are downloading a significant amount of data from the Microsoft content delivery gateway. WSUS 3.0 server not downloading update files 2008 R2 Errors I am getting Log Name: Application Source: Windows Server Update Services Date: - 78314. In this post we will cover how to install and configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in Microsoft’s Windows Server 2016. WSUS can be used to automatically download Windows update files and store them locally.
I have recently been put in charge of a WSUS setup. It consists of an upstream server that gets its updates from Microsoft and a downstream server that is autonomous (i.e. not a replica). The downstream server had recently been replaced (before i got here) and they assumed the new one was working correctly. I tend to disagree. The first thing I noticed while trying to update was that on the downstream server all of the updates showed in an error state, i.e. litte red X next to them. They were complaining that they couldnt be downloaded. A quick check of the event log led me to the fact that WSUS was trying to save them to the D drive when the was none. I changed the SQL entry for WSUS that pointed it to the correct drive (E). The reason this was wrong seems to be that they copied the SQL tables from the old server to this one, at least that's all i can come up with. Now that the entry is fixed those errors have gone away. I noticed that almost all of the updates said they had yet to be downloaded, so I selected all and pushed retry download. It has been 2 days now and it seems that nothing is being downloaded. One option I did notice was different between the upstream and the downstream was under 'Update Files and Languages' the 'Download update files to this server only when updates are approved' was not check on the downstream, but was checked on the upstream. I have tried checking this but it did not make a difference. The 'Download express installation files' is checked on both. All clients seem to be checking in, but they find no updates. Which is what i would expect since they are not downloaded to the downstream server.
The syncronizations between the servers seem to be working just fine and the downstream server shows all the new updates from yesterday's patch tuesday updates, but the updates arent downloaded. It's almost as if it's set to download metadata but not the updates themselves. I'm not sure that's even possible.
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When I highlight an update the bottom center pane of the console says 'The files for this update have not yet been downloaded. The update can be approved but will not be available to comptuers until the download is complete'
Any help you may have would be great!
Thanks
-Aron
•5 years ago
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It's getting to the point now where I have close to several hundred updates failing to download onto the WSUS server. The datastore is on a NAS with the folder currently holding at around 40GB. Storage isn't the issue as we have close to 500GB free.
I keep right clicking the updates and going to 'retry download', but that just seems to attempt to download and then fail miserably.
Wsus Server Stuck Downloading Updates
Seems to sync successfully but can not download the updates. They have all also been approved.
No error code, just a failed to download message.
Any ideas appreciated, thanks!
Wsus Stop Downloading Updates
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