Are these new machines from a cloned image? On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a WSUS v3.2.7600.226 server, running on Win 2008 R2. It has > 150+ clients, including some Win 2012 R2 clients. All has been working > fine for a few years. Now I am seeing an odd problem. > > Yesterday I created 2 new Win 2012 R2 clients, and Group Policy set > them to use the WSUS server, as usual. But the odd thing: Only 1 > client at a time shows up, they both won't show at the same time. > > Here's what I mean: 2 clients, SERVER8 and SERVER9. Neither was > showing up in the "All Computers" group, so I went to each, restarted > the BITS and Windows Update service, and issued a "wuauclt > /resetauthorization /detectnow". This is what I usually do for Win > 2008 R2 clients, who are having problems communicating with the WSUS > server. > > So I did that on SERVER8, and it then showed up in WSUS. I then did > the same on SERVER9. Oddly, SERVER8 then disappeared from WSUS, and > SERVER9 showed up. > > It's like I can have one or the other, but not both at the same time. :-) > > DNS is correct, each shows the proper IP address (when it does show > up). I see nothing in the Windows Event Logs of the WSUS server. I > don't see any errors in the WindowsUpdate.log file of the server. And > I see no errors in that file on the clients - in fact, I see things > like "4 updates detected", but nothing after to indicate why it's > dropping off the list. > > Ideas? Where to go next? > > >
