Automatic Updates not Working

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I have a small office of 30 WindowsXP Pro workstations all of which until
yesterday were set to automatically receive updates and install at 3am. I
noticed yesterday morning, after the Microsoft Patch Tuesday, that only a few
of the computers actually downloaded the updates, and only one actually
downloaded and installed the updates. Yesterday, I thought that maybe the
problem was that 30 PCs were trying to download the updates at the same time
over a DSL connection, and have set the times to different sporadic times so
that not all of them occur at 3am. Has anyone else had this issue, and if
so, what did you do to correct it in case my solution doesn't work. Of
course, I cannot test my solution until next month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday.

Thanks for your help!
Joseph Rapoport, MCP
 
On one of the machines - try this:

Click start, select run, and type: WUAUCLT.EXE /DETECTNOW

This forces WU to re-detect the updates. You may have to wait a few minutes.
Had the problem on 3 computers so far, and this seemed to work although 2 of the
computers, the firewall was blocking WU which I had to reconfigure and run the
command whilst the 3rd just needed to run the command.

Hope it works for you.

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message |I have a small office of 30 WindowsXP Pro workstations all of which until
| yesterday were set to automatically receive updates and install at 3am. I
| noticed yesterday morning, after the Microsoft Patch Tuesday, that only a few
| of the computers actually downloaded the updates, and only one actually
| downloaded and installed the updates. Yesterday, I thought that maybe the
| problem was that 30 PCs were trying to download the updates at the same time
| over a DSL connection, and have set the times to different sporadic times so
| that not all of them occur at 3am. Has anyone else had this issue, and if
| so, what did you do to correct it in case my solution doesn't work. Of
| course, I cannot test my solution until next month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday.
|
| Thanks for your help!
| Joseph Rapoport, MCP
 
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