If you get the following error while installing KB974417 through WSUS:
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0×80070643: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 Security Update for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP (KB974417).
I posted the solution which I found on the microsoft blogs and tested:
1. Remove KB976569
2. Install KB974417
3. Reinstall other .Net Updates
Today I had some servers which weren’t visible in WSUS. So I searched on the internet and found that the following steps will solve these problems:
1 . Delete the corresponding Reg Key’s:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\AccountDomainSid
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\PingID
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\SusClientId
2. Restart the WSUS Client service:
net stop wuauserv
net start wuauserv
3. Finally reset the WSUS settings and detect new updates:
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow
Today I installed my first Microsoft SQL 2008 server. I used Windows 2008 R2 as the underlaying OS. The installation was no problem so I decided to start with the migration of one of my SQL2005 Databases, the WSUS Database. Read more…