{"id":3950,"date":"2019-02-15T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2019-02-15T06:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T06:08:12","slug":"wsus-clients-contacting-but-not-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/wsus-clients-contacting-but-not-reporting","title":{"rendered":"WSUS Clients contacting but not reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"YzpIjhL\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3951  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_5c6657210fca4.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_5c6657210fca4.png 526w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_5c6657210fca4-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p><p>These are the steps that definitely fixed the issue for me:<\/p><p>Delete the computer from the WSUS console<br \/>On the affected client, stop the Windows Update service<br \/>On the affected client, rename the folder C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution<br \/>Start the Windows Update service<br \/>Run the following command in and administrative prompt:<\/p><p>wuauclt \/detectnow \/reportnow \/scannow \/resetauthorization<\/p><p>After 15 minutes or so the client will reappear in the WSUS console and report correctly<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>I had a related issue with MDT deployed machines not detecting any updates.<\/p><p>I ran this script on the PC.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenforums.com\/tutorials\/24742-reset-windows-update-windows-10-a.html\">https:\/\/www.tenforums.com\/tutorials\/24742-reset-windows-update-windows-10-a.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the steps that definitely fixed the issue for me:Delete the computer from the WSUS consoleOn the affected client, stop the Windows Update serviceOn the affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2848,2847,2191,923],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-contacting","tag-not-reporting","tag-windows-update","tag-wsus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}