Troubleshooting Silent Clients using WSUS

I had the “Silent Clients” warning in System Center this morning, and thought the information in the Resolutions section was excellent.

I try most of these steps when troubleshooting automatic updates, but there was a few new ones I’ve not used to date.

Here’s the complete list:

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How to reset a client PC in WSUS

Scenario

Have you ever changed the name of a computer, removed that computer from WSUS, then struggled to get the renamed computer to reappear in WSUS?

Here are a few commands that will help you get things working quickly.

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The synchronization with the upstream server or Microsoft Update was cancelled – WSUS Error

When initially setting up WSUS, you may get the following error when trying to synchronize with Microsoft for the first time:

“The synchronization with the upstream server or Microsoft Update was canceled”:

It took a while, but I finally fixed the problem!

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