Thursday, August 2, 2018
Fixing Automatic update clients those not appear in WSUS console
Fixing Automatic update clients those not appear in WSUS console
It is very common issue that some Automatic Update clients dont show up in WSUS console or intermittently appears/disappears.
Main cause of the this problem is generally duplicate SUSClientID on clients having problems, and it is very easy to fix by renewing the value.
You can use a batch file like below to fix it easily. You should turn of echo and remove Pause commands if you will run this with GPO or other deployment tool like SMS/SCCM.
@echo on
Echo 1. Stopping the wuauserv service
net stop wuauserv
Pause
Echo 2. Deleting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateAccountDomainSid registry key (if it exists)
REG DELETE "HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate" /v AccountDomainSid /f
Echo 3. Deleting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdatePingID registry key (if it exists)
REG DELETE "HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate" /v PingID /f
Echo 4. Deleting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateSusClientId registry key (if it exists)
REG DELETE "HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate" /v SusClientId /f
Echo 5. Deleting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateSusClientIDValidation registry key (if it exists)
REG DELETE "HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate" /v SusClientIDValidation /f
Echo 5. Restarting the wuauserv service
net start wuauserv
Pause
Echo 6. Resetting the Authorization Cookie (Wait 10 minutes for a detection cycle to finish)
wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow
Pause
