Hello,
Environment : 1. Server 2008 R2 Main Upstream server, hosts update content locally, SQL DB on another system.
2. 2 - Server 2008 R2 downstream servers, host update and sql content locally.
We had our Main Upstream WSUS server crash after applying KB2734608-x64 on a Server 2008 R2 box. Our database resides on a different SQL server on the same domain. When we tried to launch the WSUS interface the mmc console it would crash. ( MMC has detected an error in a snap in and will unload it. was the error). Looked at the logs and it seems like it could not connect to the database. Anyways after trying many fixes, i decided to re-install WSUS until it got to the point where it would not allow me to re-install got errors in the log of " InstallWsus: MWUS installation failed ( error 0x80070643: fatal error during installation with other ones like CInstallDriver and CSetupDriver:.....blah blah). I was messing with the back end database and accidentally deleted it, so i had to restore the latest backup from a month ago ( we typically back on a weekly basis with incrementals, but our backups where failing and we didn't know of this because of a complicated situation with our client..anyways). My question is once i get the WSUS connected backup what can i expect from the downstream servers in terms of Synchronization? I am assuming initially we will have re approve all updates on the upstream server, before the downstream server successfully sync? I know i have to recycle the WSUS application pool and reset the update content, anything else? Also any advice on installing that patch? We initially tried to install it because some clients were not reporting into the console properly. ( I know we are on a downward spiral here, any help is appreciated. Will probably end up rebuilding the VM from scratch re-installing WSUS )
Server 2008 - MCITP, Server 2012 - MCSA