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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Updates needed to serve Windows 10 updates and upgrades with WSUS

I created a demo environment and thought it would be nice to use latest SCCM on latest Windows and guess what?  (SCCM Current Branch on Windows Server 2016 TP5)


You WILL FAIL!











Reason is you need to install a patch to WSUS to enable Windows 10 catalog.
But this patch is only available to Windows Server 2012 R2.
Not yet available to Windows Server 2016 TP5 (curious but that's the way it is)


So I installed another WSUS Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 latest patches stand alone. Then I enabled WSUS role.


But before you start configuring it. You must install at least these patches for 
Windows Server 2012 R2:
This Update enables the Win10 classification in the WSUS catalog
KB3095113

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3095113
(also checkout note from WSUS team:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wsus/2015/12/03/important-update-for-wsus-4-0-kb-3095113/)

If you synced the catalog already and you missed the fix in the first place you need to read this for fixing it!https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wsus/2016/01/29/how-to-delete-upgrades-in-wsus/


This Update enables the ESD function. Without it you can not deploy 1607 or newer!
BE CAREFULL AND READ THE MANUAL STEPS NECESSARY!!!
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3159706

This update also replaces the problematic fix KB3148812. If it is installed you can install the KB3159706 on top of it! But don't miss the manual steps!


HINT:
You get all the updates also through (you need to know the KB article number)
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com




Microsoft promised these steps are not necessary for WSUS on Windows Server 2016 RTM.


HAPPY UPDATING!