{"id":1244,"date":"2017-06-30T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.sealionshipping.co.uk\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2017-06-30T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T16:33:26","slug":"how-to-remove-wsus-client-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/how-to-remove-wsus-client-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"How to REMOVE WSUS CLIENT settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSome of P2V servers from the old domain relied on WSUS. This stops you from being ably to manually search and install Windows Updates<\/p>\n<p><strong>Error message \u00a0Windows Update failed : \u00a0Error 80244018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a server (or a workstation) the way to uninstall<\/p>\n<p><strong>On a DC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>In the WSUS GPO assigned to this server, DISABLE the policy &#8220;Specify intranet Microsoft update service location&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And \/Or<\/p>\n<p>If the policy has already been removed, or the machine is in a container with no policy applied for WSUS:<br \/>\nReset the registry value UseWUServer = dword:0x0 (DISABLED), or<br \/>\nDelete the entire registry key HKLM\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\WindowsUpdate<br \/>\nwhich will revert the WUAgent to the original installed behavior of Automatic Updates<br \/>\nand then set the desired behavior usingthe Control Panel | Windows Update dialog.<\/p>\n<p>Reboot the computer before you can do an update.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows Update Error code 80244018018 <\/strong>means your system cannot connect to the Microsoft windows update server.<\/p>\n<p>1. Go to start menu, input \u201cservices.msc\u201d in the search blank without quotation and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p>2. Locate \u201cBackground Intelligent Transfer Service\u201d, right click and set the status as \u201cstarted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>3. Located \u201cWindows Update\u201d and set its status as \u201cstarted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>4. Located \u201cWindows Firewall\u201d and \u201cstop\u201d it.<\/p>\n<p>5. Try again Windows Update online, the problem should be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The above services should be running for Windows Updates to work properly. Best to set them all to Automatic (Delayed Start)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And Finally &#8211; if all else fails<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Stop the following services:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Update Service<\/li>\n<li>Windows Installer<\/li>\n<li>Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Delete the following folders contents<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>%windir%\\SoftwareDistribution\\Datastore<\/li>\n<li>%windir%\\SoftwareDistribution\\Download<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Delete registry keys (and sub folders \/ sub keys):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\WindowsUpdate<\/li>\n<li>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\WindowsUpdate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Ensure services are set to start automatically (delayed)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)<\/li>\n<li>Windows Installer<\/li>\n<li>Windows Update Service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Restart all services or reboot server<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Start windows update and schedule it<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><strong>Deleting registry results in loss of windows update settings and history. Start windows update once manually to ensure its working. Set update strategy as you want. (automatically)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source from:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/355020\/windows-update-not-working-on-windows-server-2008-r2\">https:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/355020\/windows-update-not-working-on-windows-server-2008-r2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"windows update error code 80244018018\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.teesupport.com\/how-to-guide-fix-windows-update-error-80244018-on-window-7vista\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/blog.teesupport.com\/how-to-guide-fix-windows-update-error-80244018-on-window-7vista\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/eff10fab-7ca3-471e-a164-bf7b73a28128\/how-to-remove-wsus-client-settings?forum=winserverwsus\">https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/eff10fab-7ca3-471e-a164-bf7b73a28128\/how-to-remove-wsus-client-settings?forum=winserverwsus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of P2V servers from the old domain relied on WSUS. This stops you from being ably to manually search and install Windows Updates Error message \u00a0Windows Update failed : \u00a0Error 80244018 On a server (or a workstation) the way to uninstall On a DC In the WSUS GPO assigned to this server, DISABLE the policy &#8220;Specify intranet Microsoft update service location&#8221;. And \/Or If the policy has already been removed, or the machine is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,75],"tags":[135,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}