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Category: Windows Client

Cumulative Update Prerequisites Can Bite You

Posted on August 19, 2018August 7, 2020 by Marty

In my previous blog post, I wrote about adding cumulative updates to a Windows image. While doing so I smashed my head into a wall for a while figuring out that I was missing a servicing stack update. And if you don’t install that first, the cumulative update won’t actually install into the image. The…

SSL with WSUS: You still need Port 8530

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Marty

I thought I’d share a nugget of information that proved helpful when troubleshooting WSUS Windows Update issues. And this also serves as a reminder that sometimes you have to go back and read the manual. I had a client machine that was configured properly to use my intranet WSUS server over SSL, and the WSUS…

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