# WSUS b0rked

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**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\
**Created:** [March 14, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wsus-b0rked/23731 "2013-03-14T20:49:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wsus-b0rked/23731/1 "2013-03-14T20:49:27Z")

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Okay guys and gals I am at a loss.  
I have a WSUS SP2 running on w2k3 system that has ceased to do anything  
meaningful. All of the clients are reporting in the WSUS admin console as  
not being able to be contacted in X days. I have gone through every  
conceivable thing I can find on technet and still it does nothing.  
I’ve even reinstalled WSUS to no avail. I’ve tried things on the client,  
done the browse to server http path, checked the registry, check policies,  
ping server telnet server you name it. Nothing. It just mocks me.

Any ideas? I’ve already done the fdisk option.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wsus-b0rked/23731/2 "2013-03-15T04:38:42Z")

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GofBorg wrote:  
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> I have a WSUS SP2 running on w2k3 system that has ceased to do  
> anything meaningful.[/color]

Isn’t that the definition of WSUS in the first place? 🙂

–  
Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wsus-b0rked/23731/3 "2013-03-15T05:26:01Z")

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what if you set up a fresh client machine or vm and point it to it, does  
it register or talk to it at all?

just wondering if a recent update on all your machines might have  
clobbered the config, or otherwise made your machines not talk to an  
(admittedly fairly old) server?

failing that a nice solution might be to implement ZPM instead of WSUS?  
😉

## – gleach1

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