WUS - staying at 0.00 of 1.3GB of data

Marcus Dempsey

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Jun 16, 2005, 5:27:04 PM6/16/05

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Hi,

I installed and configured WUS last monday, and have a problem with the WUS
server downloading the actual update files for the clients to install. The
WUS server is actually downloading the updates from the server so that I can
authorise or deny them, however the server is not actually downloading the
files. For the last week and a half it has stayed at downloading 0.00 of xxx
MB, although the number of files to download increases depending upon the
amount of updates I authorise.

I am currently connecting to the MS website via MS proxy 2 (soon to be ISA
2004), and cant see any errors in the event log on the server. I can browse
the Internet without any problems. The Network service service also has read
access to the root of the drive and the actual wuscontent folder.

Anyone know how to get this working?

Marcus

Don Cottam [MS]

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Jun 17, 2005, 4:14:34 AM6/17/05

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Cross-posting to microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services. Please
start using the new WSUS newsgroup
(http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services
for those who use the Web Reader) for all WSUS-related issues.

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Are there any warnings or errors in the %program files%\update
services\logfiles\softwaredistribution.log?

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Don Cottam
Microsoft Corporation
Windows Server Update Services

donco AT microsoft DOT com
(I prefer to communicate through the newsgroup, so please do not email me
unless necessary...but if necessary, don't hesitate to email me. Thx!)

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Marcus Dempsey

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Jun 17, 2005, 5:03:04 AM6/17/05

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Hi Dan,

Thanks for the reply, when I posted this post, I wasnt receiving any errors,
but checking the log file now, I have started to receive the below error
message, which has been repeated for about 4 hours every minute or so.

2005-06-17 08:56:17.031
UTC Error wsusservice.20 ContentSyncAgent.MonitorStatusThreadProc System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800706BA): The RPC server is unavailable.
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32
errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo)
at Microsoft.Windows.BackgroundTransfer.Job.get_State()
at
Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSync.ContentSyncAgent.MonitorStatusThreadProc()

at
Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSync.ContentSyncAgent.MonitorStatusThreadProc()

Marcus

Wsus

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Aug 24, 2005, 6:22:01 AM8/24/05

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I had the same problem,
I am behind a squid proxy which requires auth, after reviewing the logs for
the proxy it seems to sync the update list Wsus uses auth but when actually
downloading approved updates it does not! Which is crazy behaviour.

The way i got around it was by allowing anon access to *.microsoft.com and
*.windowsupdate.com to my wsus server.
Which is a nasty hack but it does work great.

Some other people talk about using proxycfg.exe but i have not tried that.

Hope this may help