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How to Kill WSUS and Internal Database

If you have a messed up install of WSUS You will need the following.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/221bd010-ae12-429b-8c10-3f9d0c1ceb6c

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925976

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708610(WS.10).aspx

For me i had to Uninstall WSUS but tell it to leave the DB. Reboot. Then find the Reg Keys as explained in one of the links. I had to delete these rather than change. After this uninstalled Windows Internal DB from Add/ Remove. The reboot. The manually delete the stuff in c:\windows\sysmsi\SQL Server 2005. Then check the :\WSUS or wherver it was installed was empty.

Then i was able to re-install from Package.

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WSUS Computer not reporting status

PC not reporting status in WSUS server.

Be patient allow 2 hours.

wuauclt

wuauclt.exe /DetectNow
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow

1. Stop the Automatic Updates service
2. Removing the AccountDomainSid and SusClientId values from the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate key
3. Start the Automatic Updates service
4. Issue a wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow command

Log can be found at c:\windows\WindowsUpdate.log