Reset WSUS ClientBeen working on WSUS and have setup a WSUS server. However started to get a problem whereby the computers were appearing on WSUS and reporting their status then disappearing. I noticed that they were disappearing and being replaced by another computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It turns out that when a machine is ghosted and then sysprep’ed it doesnt reset the WSUS id, which is a unique ID that WSUS uses to track the computer. So i’ve been able to come up with a script that can be run manually or via a script (GPO) on startup to reset this ID and make it talk properly to WSUS. Note this also sorted problems with Virtual Machines that have been cloned too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Set oShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sRegKey = “HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\WindowsUpdate”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pRegKey = “HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet Settings\\Connections”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘ suppress error in case values does not exist<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Error Resume Next<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘ check for marker<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sIDDeleted = oShell.RegRead( sRegKey & “\\IDDeleted”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘ to be sure values is only deleted once, test on marker<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If sIDDeleted <> “yes” Then<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘ delete any WinHttpSettings registry entry (interferes with WSUS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oshell.RegDelete pRegKey & “\\WinHttpSettings”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘ delete values<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & “\\AccountDomainSid”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & “\\PingID”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & “\\SusClientId”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘ Stop and start the Automatic updates service<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oShell.Run “%SystemRoot%\\system32\\net.exe stop wuauserv”, 0, True<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oShell.Run “%SystemRoot%\\system32\\net.exe start wuauserv”, 0, True<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘ Run wuauclt.exe with resetauthorization<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sCmd = “%SystemRoot%\\system32\\wuauclt.exe \/resetauthorization \/detectnow”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oShell.Run sCmd, 0, True<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘ create marker<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oShell.RegWrite sRegKey & “\\IDDeleted”, “yes”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
End If<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note: this should be copied and saved as a .vbs file. I’ve also attached it as a file to this post, needs to be renamed though!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Set oShell = CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\") \n\nsRegKey = \"HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\WindowsUpdate\" \npRegKey = \"HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet Settings\\Connections\"\n \n' suppress error in case values does not exist \nOn Error Resume Next \n\n' check for marker \nsIDDeleted = oShell.RegRead( sRegKey & \"\\IDDeleted\") \n\n' to be sure values is only deleted once, test on marker \nIf sIDDeleted <> \"yes\" Then \n\t\n ' delete any WinHttpSettings registry entry (interferes with WSUS)\n oshell.RegDelete pRegKey & \"\\WinHttpSettings\"\n\n ' delete values \n oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & \"\\AccountDomainSid\" \n oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & \"\\PingID\" \n oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & \"\\SusClientId\" \n\n ' Stop and start the Automatic updates service \n oShell.Run \"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\net.exe stop wuauserv\", 0, True \n oShell.Run \"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\net.exe start wuauserv\", 0, True \n\n ' Run wuauclt.exe with resetauthorization \n sCmd = \"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\wuauclt.exe \/resetauthorization \/detectnow\" \n oShell.Run sCmd, 0, True \n\n ' create marker \n oShell.RegWrite sRegKey & \"\\IDDeleted\", \"yes\"\n\nEnd If\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reset WSUS ClientBeen working on WSUS and have setup a WSUS server. However started to get a problem whereby the computers were appearing on WSUS and reporting their status then disappearing. I noticed that they were disappearing and being replaced by another computer. It turns out that when a machine is ghosted and then sysprep’ed … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}