


Remove all Drivers from the WSUS Database (Default Optional).ģ. Add WSUS Index Optimization to the database to increase the speed of many database operations in WSUS by approximately 1000-1500 times faster.Ģ.

It is an automated maintenance system for WSUS, the last system you'll ever need to maintain WSUS!ġ. Please have a look at the WSUS Automated Maintenance (WAM) system. Sending the following information to Microsoft can help improve the software.Īny suggestions would be greatly appreciated! ReportDescription=A Windows update did not install properly. P9: įriendlyEventName=Windows Update installation problemĪppName=Host Process for Windows Services CheckSUR.log:Ĩ) Event Viewer logs led me to believe a random update caused this issue, so I uninstalled every update in April, rebooted, and still error 80072EFE.

The client gets the GPOs successfully, but the client still gets the same error.Ħ) Deleted the client off the WSUS server and reconnected from the client side.ħ) System Readiness Tool (installs KB947821) found no errors. Reg Delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v SusClientIDValidation /fĤ ) Tried reinstalling the windows update agent: windowsupdateagent-7.6-圆4.exeĥ) Tried changing GPOs so it goes from the IT group that doesn’t have updates forced into a standard users GPO. Reg Delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v SusClientId /f Ren %windir%\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old At the beginning of my digging, it was 6 days older than Last Contact.: “Error 80072EFE Windows Update encountered an error”Ģ) WSUS server and client domain firewalls are turned off.ģ) The following script ran successfully (WSUS “Last Status Report” shows not yet reported. Typically, running a WSUS reset script fixes most WSUS communication issues, but not this time. We have hundreds of clients on our WSUS (2012 R2) server, and this is only one I know of (so far) that has this scenario. I’ve tried everything I can possibly find on the web. Even after fully updating from Microsoft Update, it still can’t check from the WSUS server. When checking for updates on Microsoft Update, it gets updates just fine. On a Win 7圆4 box (unfortunately, it’s one of my boss’s VMs), it gets error 80072EFE when checking updates from our WSUS server.
