{"id":10183,"date":"2009-12-08T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10183"},"modified":"2009-12-08T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:20:09","slug":"wsus-the-update-could-not-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10183","title":{"rendered":"WSUS: The Update Could Not Be Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was re-installing the WSUS role on our security server (W2008 R2) today and hit this error as soon as the installation started:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>update could not be found<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit of a weird one for a role installation.&#160; I hadn\u2019t the foggiest so I did a quick search and found the <a href=\"http:\/\/techblog.mirabito.net.au\/?p=58\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delete the \u201cWindowsUpdate\u201d key from the registry at HKLMSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindows.&#160; I\u2019d recommend you export this to a .reg file to be safe.<\/li>\n<li>Restart the Windows Update service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you can go ahead and install WSUS.<\/p>\n<p>The problem and fix applies to previous versions of Windows.&#160; The issue is that the installer is checking Windows Updates but it has found a circular reference.&#160; You\u2019ve uninstalled WSUS from the server and it is configured to update from itself.&#160; How can it?&#160; Make sure you do the install before GPO applies those settings again during an automatic refresh.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5b2a1df6-43f3-480c-9c67-ae6ea0b5e683\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/WSUS\" rel=\"tag\">WSUS<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was re-installing the WSUS role on our security server (W2008 R2) today and hit this error as soon as the installation started: \u201cThe update could not be found\u201d. It\u2019s a bit of a weird one for a role installation.&#160; I hadn\u2019t the foggiest so I did a quick search and found the solution: Delete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WSUS: The Update Could Not Be Found&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[190,126],"class_list":["post-10183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security","tag-wsus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}