Are your machines deployed from images? Even if Sysprepped the SusClientID can remain and cause machines to not appear in the WSUS console.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/athif/archive/2005/09/04/65174.aspx From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WSUS It seems I have about ½ my PC’s getting updated from WSUS but not reporting back to it. I seem to find a ton of near-misses via Google. The WindowsUpdate.log on the client doesn’t show any errors and in fact the client thinks it’s reporting to the server. Clients are Win7 and XP SP3. Any here see this type of behavior before? Same WSUS GPO for all systems, etc. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
