Troubleshooting WSUS Installation

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Troubleshooting the installation of WSUS is generally very straightforward, and there is not too much to go wrong. The following steps should get you up and going.

First you should ensure you have all the necessary pre-requsites, and have them installed. See WSUS Installation Prerequsites for more information on these. You need to ensure you have IIS loaded, and both the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and BITS 2.0 installed. On this set of software components, the WSUS server setup should run and complete.

On the completing the installation, you should be able to launch the WSUSADMIN site. One important thing to check is that clients can connect to the site. By default, clients attempt to connect to to the WUS site using port 80. If you have the Wus Service running on a non-default port, remember to configure your clients to use the correct port.

Once you have WSUS installed, it's time to do some WSUS Post Installation Validation before proceeding into production.

If you are migrating from SUS to WUS, you have the option of migrating the updates from your old SUS server by using the wsutil.exe comment. See Working with WSUSUTIL for details on this comand and see Troubleshooting WSUS Upgrade for issues with upgrading. NB: you must perform a synchronisation of the WUS server before migrating updates using wsutil.

Last Modified 3/22/05 9:31 AM