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?
>
>
>

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