WSUS

While manually importing updates into WSUS, you might find the Add button missing in Microsoft Update Catalog. When launching the Microsoft Update Catalog from WSUS, no option is available to allow…

This post explains how to manually add or import updates into WSUS from Microsoft Update catalog. But the first question that comes in mind is why do I need to manually import or add windows…

In this post I will cover the steps to install and configure WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) on Windows Server 2019. This guide should help you if you decide to install and configure WSUS from…

This post covers on SCCM catalogs for third party software updates. I will show you how to add or import SCCM custom catalog for example - Adobe Reader catalog into SCCM. I will also touch base on…

In this post we will see how to deal with an error in SCCM where the WSUS Sync fails with HTTP 503 error. Recently one of the customer reported issues related to software updates. They were unable to…

Failed to set Subscriptions on WSUS Server Error 0x80131500 - Recently I came across an issue related to software updates synchronization. The error found in WCM.log file was "failed to set…

Recently I installed cumulative update 4 on SCCM 2012 R2 SP1. While things were working fine, I got an error related to WSUS service. On my SCCM server the WSUS service failed to start. The error was…

Installing WSUS for Configuration Manager 2012 R2 After installing SQL server for Configuration Manager 2012 R2, we will now see the steps for Installing WSUS for Configuration Manager 2012 R2. WSUS…

In this post we will see the steps for installing WSUS for SCCM, configuring firewall exceptions, opening ports for SQL replication. So far in this deployment series of SCCM 2012 SP1, in the first…

In the previous posts we have seen Installation, Configuration, Managing and troubleshooting the WSUS server. In this post we will see how to configure client side targeting in WSUS. When you…