IE7 "not needed" and won't deploy from WSUS

[Philip Stratford]

I want to trial deploying IE7 to a couple of clients on our network of about
300 PCs. Yesterday I looked online and saw that IE7 was to be released for
WSUS again overnight but, being impatient as I am, I imported it manually
from the download catalgogue. Having said that, the updates in WSUS were
reporting that the files hadn't actually been downloaded until this morning.

Anyway, now the update seems to be successfully in WSUS (I'm on v3.0) and
I've marked it for approval for one client. However, the update is only
showing as "needed" by 6 workstations, even though all of our 300-or-so
clients are on IE6. Since the workstation I've approved for installation
isn't one of those showing as needing the update, it won't install it no
matter how many times I run "wuauclt /detectnow".

Does anyone have any idea how I can get this update to successfully detect
that it's needed on all of our clients? I was wondering if there's a way to
remove the update for WSUS and let it synchronise again now that it's been
released properly but I can't find any guidance on how to do so.

Thanks.

[Rgoff]

I'm having similar issues. I just installed WSUS 3.0 SP1 for the first time,
and ran some test updates to a few select systems. Sending down "Office"
updates that I approved worked fine, but not the IE7 rollup package when
adding from the library as indicated from here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946202

I then noticed tonight that the one I added is from Nov 2007, and I changed
some filtering options in the "all updates" list and saw a second IE7 from
2/12/2008 and I'm going to retry a deployment tomorrow to see if that one
works.

[Philip Stratford]

That's interesting. I tried clearing all filters yesterday and I've done so
again today, as well as doing a search in WSUS for IE7 and I definitely only
have one update present. However, this morning there are now apparently 166
workstations which need this update, and 104 which supposedly don't. Sadly,
the one PC I want to update is one of the 104. I'm hoping that over the next
few days the number of PCs needing the udpate will continue to rise until it
includes the whole network, although why this should take days when all of
the workstations are showing as reporting to the WSUS server each day I
don't know.