I have a WSUS server that will not sync up with the Microsoft web site for about 2 weeks now. The server does sit behind a proxy server and I have that configured in the options and it had been working. Initially the sync would fail and I would get the following error:
WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 10.10.5.18:80
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream(TransportContext& context)
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSyncWebServices.ServerSync.ServerSyncProxy.GetAuthConfig()
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSync.ServerSyncLib.InternetGetServerAuthConfig(ServerSyncProxy proxy, WebServiceCommunicationHelper webServiceHelper)
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSync.ServerSyncLib.Authenticate(AuthorizationManager authorizationManager, Boolean checkExpiration, ServerSyncProxy proxy, Cookie cookie, WebServiceCommunicationHelper webServiceHelper)
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSync.CatalogSyncAgentCore.SyncConfigUpdatesFromUSS()
at Microsoft.UpdateServices.ServerSync.CatalogSyncAgentCore.ExecuteSyncProtocol(Boolean allowRedirect)
The above error seems to indicate it is an issue with the Proxy server or connection to the Proxy server so I opened a ticket with the group that administers the Proxy server and they said I need to change the port number in the Proxy settings on the WSUS server from port 80 to 8080. Did this and the sync still fails but with a different error:
One or more errors were found when trying to import updates into the data store, and the synchronization has failed. The next synchronization will try to import the updates that were not imported in this attempt.
I was not sure if the above error indicating and issue with connectivity or the data store itself. I was using the default out of the box WSUS database so I decided to migrate over to SQL 2005 full version to make sure it wasn't an issue where the DB was corrupt or had gotten to big it was > than 3gb. I migrated over to SQL 2005 with no problem but the sync is still failing with the above error. I have ran wsusutil and it found no problems. I am still looking into the Proxy side of it but would anybody have any suggestions on what else may be causing this issue? As I say it had been syncing with no problems up until about two weeks ago.
Thanks for any help!