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Dave H - 06 Sep 2005 22:36 GMT
I have 2 systems that won't connect correctly, both give me this same
failure in the Client Diagnostic:

Checking Connection to WSUS/SUS Server
AU does not have Policy Set
AU does not have Policy Set
       UseWuServer is disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAIL

I looked at the policy, it's fine, even went digging around in the Registry,
and I can see my server listed twice there, just like the ones that are
working.

What else can I look for?  The other 10 systems came up immediately.
Lawrence Garvin - 07 Sep 2005 05:57 GMT
Well.. obviously the policy is not fine, or the Client Diagnostic Tool would
not have complained as such.
Or, perhaps, the policy is simply not being applied correctly on these two
systems.

Please export the following registry key and subkeys and post it here, and
we'll see what the issue is:
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

>I have 2 systems that won't connect correctly, both give me this same
> failure in the Client Diagnostic:
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>
> What else can I look for?  The other 10 systems came up immediately.
Dave H - 07 Sep 2005 17:41 GMT
That key isn't there at all...

The one place I found it was (this is a Windows 200 Server):

HKEY_USERS\...\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy
Objects\LocalMachine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

"WUServer"="http://...."
"WUStatusServer"="http://...."

It does exist on one that I checked that is working correctly.

> Well.. obviously the policy is not fine, or the Client Diagnostic Tool would
> not have complained as such.
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> >
> > What else can I look for?  The other 10 systems came up immediately.
Lawrence Garvin - 08 Sep 2005 02:44 GMT
If the policy has been applied to the system correctly, the key will exist.
If the key does not exist, the policy has not been applied to the system
correctly.

The registry pathname that you quote is quite intriguing, but I'll have to
pass on commenting on it specifically, as I know very little about what
might be written into the HKEY_USERS key... however, I will venture a guess
as to this:

You may have configured the WSUS policy as a /USER/ policy... rather than a
/COMPUTER/ policy.

If the wuau.adm was imported into the Computer Configuration tree, you'll
have WSUS policy settings located at:
   \Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows
Components\Windows Update

If you imported the template incorrectly, that would also account for the
absence of the key in HKLM.

Of course.. since you have 10 other systems working correctly, and only 2
misbehaving, I'm really confused, because that doesn't sound like an issue
of the template being improperly imported.

> That key isn't there at all...
>
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>> >
>> > What else can I look for?  The other 10 systems came up immediately.
Dave H - 08 Sep 2005 19:29 GMT
I thought about that too, and checked it about 3 times to make sure.  The
policy under the User Configuration, Windows Update only shows one policy

"Remove access to use all Windows Update features"

just like the others..

> If the policy has been applied to the system correctly, the key will exist.
> If the key does not exist, the policy has not been applied to the system
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> >> > What else can I look for?  The other 10 systems came up immediately.
Lawrence Garvin - 09 Sep 2005 04:28 GMT
Yes... /THAT/ policy is a User-based policy.

What do you have under Computer Configuration\Administrative
Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update ???

>I thought about that too, and checked it about 3 times to make sure.  The
> policy under the User Configuration, Windows Update only shows one policy
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>> >> >
>> >> > What else can I look for?  The other 10 systems came up immediately.
woef - 15 Sep 2005 10:14 GMT
maybe you can use group policy management console to see incompatible
settings in diffeerent gpo's.
Experienced it myself when 1 setting of my wsus gpo was overruled by another
gpo.

> Yes... /THAT/ policy is a User-based policy.
>
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>>> >> > What else can I look for?  The other 10 systems came up
>>> >> > immediately.
Dave H - 20 Sep 2005 15:29 GMT
What I endded up doing, was exporting my keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]

and importing them into the total of 4 systems that didn't take (so far, out
of 21) - worked fine.

> Yes... /THAT/ policy is a User-based policy.
>
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> >> >
> >> > HKEY_USERS\...\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy

Objects\LocalMachine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

> >> > "WUServer"="http://...."
> >> > "WUStatusServer"="http://...."
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> >> >> >
> >> >> > What else can I look for?  The other 10 systems came up immediately.
 
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