endless WU search

[doug]

Booster – It sounds like you’re on the right track. I’m not sure how long you left it running before you decided to stop the service and decided that it was running endlessly. However, I think you’re correct that it’s not a BP issue. I’ve seen some cases, in particular when using the WsusScn2.cab file, where a search can take a very long time. If a computer doesn’t have free RAM and plenty of CPU horsepower, it can take a very long time for it to parse the WsusScn2.cab file. However, I think your plan of restarting the machine and renaming the softwaredistribution folder is a good bet.

Good luck.

-Doug

[booster]

Hi Doug,

I let it run for more than 2 hours, not really endless but close ;). I’ve requested the maintenance, hope it will help.

thanks for your answer

Regards

Booster

[booster]

Follow up:

The previous mentioned actions did not solved the problem, here below the steps needed in my case:

1/ open admin cmd.exe and type

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

(https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/947821?wa=wsignin1.0)

2/ wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow

These steps were necessary after the following ones, successful but not solving the issue

– reboot

– sfc /scannow

– rename softwaredistribution folder

– WU agent update to last version (manual KB install)

– Windows update reset (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058)

– wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow (without dism first)

Regards

Booster

[doug]

Interesting! Thanks for the follow-up. Glad you got it figured out.

-Doug

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