Re: WSUS stopped working

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Can you see if you got as an update in your windows update history a WSUS 3 sp1 update last week?

(click Windows update, click on the "update history"

Liam wrote:
Here is the posted error message:
""
The WSUS administration console has encountered an unexpected error. This may be a transient error; try restarting the administration console. If this error persists,

Try removing the persisted preferences for the console by deleting the wsus file under %appdata%\Microsoft\MMC\.


System.NotSupportedException -- The given path's format is not supported.

Source
Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration

Stack Trace:
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy.CreateUpdateServer(Object[] args)
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy.GetUpdateServer(String serverName, Boolean useSecureConnection, Int32 portNumber)
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.UI.AdminApiAccess.AdminApiTools.GetUpdateServer(String serverName, Boolean useSecureConnection, Int32 portNumber)
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.UI.SnapIn.Scope.ServerSummaryScopeNode.GetUpdateServer(PersistedServerSettings settings)
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.UI.SnapIn.Scope.ServerSummaryScopeNode.ConnectToServer()
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.UI.SnapIn.Scope.ServerSummaryScopeNode.get_ServerTools()
""

"Liam" wrote:

About a week ago I installed the latest recommended patches for the SBS2003.
IIS broke (permissions become deny rather than allow).

Now it also appears that WSUS is affected. I cannot truly confirm this since I have not used it for 2 weeks.

This is what the console shows:
Error:Unexpected Error
An Unexpected error occurred. Click Reset Server Node to try to connect to the server again.

Nothing works.

I went to IIS and tried to browse the site. nothing.

Any ideas?

liam
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