SCCM and Patching Internet Clients
We had a customer recently that needed to setup a second Software Update Point (SUP) to support internet clients. We ran into a strange issue after the SUP role was installed. The WSUSCrtl.log was reporting the following error: “system.net.webexcption: the request failed with the HTTP status 404”. Another test system had an error like this one:
The solution we found by trial and error (not a lot was to be had via the web)….the trick it seems is to NOT have the WSUS server role have a download location. Which after thinking about it makes sense – no need to download the content, the first SUP has that already.
So when you need to setup a second SUP in the same site don’t forget this:
Now go patch those internet clients…and enjoy.
Written by:
Dan Newton
Dan has been consulting, focusing on Microsoft infrastructure technologies, for over 15 years. He has worked with many of Atlanta’s fortune 500 companies and other enterprise customers throughout the US. Recent project highlights include: Server virtualization design and deployment to support over 300 servers across 10 server Hyper-V cluster Design, develop and deployment of migration from SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007 for SMS hierarchy comprised of over 350 SMS server support over 70,000 clients; Design of a global SCCM 202 hierarchy to support over 100,000 systems and internet-based clients
