Problem Solving WSUS failing for Windows 1. Hi Folks,After updating WSUS to support Windows 1. Windows 1. 0 client werent working. The error they were getting was 8. WSUS upgrade.  Initially we thought it was related to the WSUS upgrade, but found out that most of our systems hadnt been updating for a while. So we moved on to troubleshooting the client further. We found that the following GPO Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet locations  was not configured. After doing some digging we determined that this was put in place to prevent our clients from downloading updates from MS directly, which was originally happening. The weird thing to me was why were our clients going to MS anyway We have WSUS, that is the point of WSUS Disabling the setting resulted in us getting updates, but now they were coming from MS directly and not WSUS. Enabling or setting it to not configured resulted in the lovely error. Example snippet of log file below. Web. Services WS error There was an error communicating with the endpoint at http Server. NameClient. Web. Serviceclient. Web. Services WS error There was an error receiving the HTTP reply. Web. Services WS error The operation did not complete within the time allotted. Web. Services WS error The operation timed out. Web. Services Web service call failed with hr 8. After a ton of Google Fu, I stumbled on to this article https blogs. Before you start reading, make sure youre relaxed and read through it carefully, because the answer is there, but you have make sure youre not just skimming. Here is the main section and highlighted points that you need to glean from that article. Ensure that the registry HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindows. Update doesnt reflect any of these values. Defer. Feature. Update. Defer. Feature. Update. Period. In. Days. Defer. Quality. Update. Defer. Quality. Update. Forums/getfile/992211' alt='Wsus The Server Is Failing To Updates' title='Wsus The Server Is Failing To Updates' />Period. In. Days. Pause. Feature. Update. Pause. Quality. Update. Defer. Upgrade. Exclude. WUDrivers. In. Quality. Update. Not in a managed environment. These policies are meant for Windows Update for Business WUf. B. Learn more about Windows Update for Business. Windows Update for Business aka WUf. B enables information technology administrators to keep the Windows 1. Windows features by directly connecting these systems to Windows Update service. We also recommend that you do not use these new settings with WSUSSCCM. Crush It By Gary Vaynerchuk Pdf. If you are already using an on prem solution to manage Windows updatesupgrades, using the new WUf. B settings will enable your clients to also reach out to Microsoft Update online to fetch update bypassing your WSUSSCCM end point. WSUS_main.png' alt='Wsus The Server Is Failing To Updates' title='Wsus The Server Is Failing To Updates' />To manage updates, you have two solutions Use WSUS or SCCM and manage how and when you want to deploy updates and upgrades to Windows 1. Use the new WUf. B settings to manage how and when you want to deploy updates and upgrades to Windows 1. Windows Update. So, the moment any one of these policies are configured, even if these are set to be disabled, a new behavior known as Dual Scan is invoked in the Windows Update agent. When Dual Scan is engaged, the following change in client behavior occur Whenever Automatic Updates scans for updates against the WSUS or SCCM server, it also scans against Windows Update, or against Microsoft Update if the machine is configured to use Microsoft Update instead of Windows Update. It processes any updates it finds, subject to the deferralpausing policies mentioned above. Some Windows Update GPOs that can be configured to better manage the Windows Update agent. I recommend you test them in your environment. After reading that, I went back in our GPO and did some more digging, since all our WSUS client settings are defined in GPO, turns out we have the Do not include drivers with setting enabled. Chemistry Of The Elements Greenwood Pdf. So ultimately it was this setting that led to the whole Dual Scan mode being enabled, which led to us downloading MS updates needed to happen anyway, which led to us disabling that, which led to WSUS not being used at all. Neutral Milk Hotel Rar there. So after setting both settings to not configured and doing a lot of GPUpdates restarting of the windows update services, eventually I went from getting that error, to everything being back to normal. That is, my client connecting to WSUS and downloading updates the right way. Lessons learned besides not just randomly enabling WSUS settings, is that Microsoft in my not so humble opinion, needs to do a better job with the entire WSUS client control. This is just stupid behaviour to be blunt. Hi all, Ive been tasked with getting WSUS working again on our network, as it had lain unused for quite for some time. Initial investigation simply. What I would suggest that MS do is as follows. For Petes sake, have a damn setting that controls whether we want updates via WSUS, WUFB, or neither. I mean it seems like such an obvious thing. Clearly implied settings conflict. If you have to write a damn article explaining all the gotchas you failed at building an user friendly solution. Group settings that are Windows update for business specific in their own damn GPO folder and their own damn reg key. This way theres no question these are for WUf. B only.  Similar to WSUS. If WSUS is enabled, ignore WUf. B settings and vice versa. Anyway, hope that helps any other poor souls out there. Wsus The Server Is Failing To Updates' title='Wsus The Server Is Failing To Updates' />Slow Microsoft update downloads from the WSUS server. Party Application Patching with SCCM and SolarWinds Patch Manager Video 502 Bad Gateway Unable to Sync. I had a situation where WSUS was failing to download updates after moving content from one local drive to another. I thought resetting might fix it but it didnt.