To re-install WSUS with a clean database i.e. no previous configuration, run the following procedure (powershell commands).<\/p>\n
\nRemove all WSUS components<\/em><\/span>
\n
\n– <\/span>Uninstall-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices,Windows-Internal-Database,Iis
\n–\u00a0Remove-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices,UpdateServices-DB,UpdateServices-RSAT,UpdateServices-API,UpdateServices-UI-IncludeManagementTools
\n– Delete\u00a0C:\\Windows\\WID
\n–\u00a0Delete the registry key HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Update Services
\n–\u00a0Delete the WSUS file from %appdata%\\Microsoft\\MMC
\n–\u00a0Delete\u00a0folder %ProgramFiles%\\Update Services along with all of its subfolders and files.
\n– Reboot the Server
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nInstall\u00a0all WSUS components<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n– Verify IIS is installed and working without errors (check http:\/\/localhost\u00a0on server)
\n–\u00a0Install-WindowsFeature -Name Iis
\n– Install-WindowsFeature –<\/span>Name UpdateServices –<\/span>IncludeManagementTools
\n<\/span><\/p>\n–\u00a0Once WSUS installation has completed, change the current working directory to %programfiles%\\Update Services\\Tools and run one of the following post-installation commands:<\/p>\n
To use a SQL DB: .\\wsusutil.exe postinstall SQL_INSTANCE_NAME=\u201dSERVER\\Instance\u201d CONTENT_DIR=\u201d<drive>:\\WSUS\u201d<\/p>\n
To use WID: .\\wsusutil.exe postinstall CONTENT_DIR=\u201d<drive>:\\WSUS\u201d<\/p>\n
– Reboot the Server<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Logfiles for WSUS post-Installation tasks are\u00a0located in the %temp% folder.\u00a0There should be a log file with the .TMP file extension. (EXAMPLE: tmp56B7.tmp)<\/p>\n
Sources:
\n– http:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/449914\/how-to-completely-wipe-wsus-and-start-again<\/a>
\n– https:\/\/ittherapist.net\/2013\/12\/17\/how-to-fix-windows-server-2012-and-2012-r2-wsus-post-install-fails-immediately\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To re-install WSUS with a clean database i.e. no previous configuration, run the following procedure (powershell commands). Remove all WSUS components – Uninstall-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices,Windows-Internal-Database,Iis –\u00a0Remove-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices,UpdateServices-DB,UpdateServices-RSAT,UpdateServices-API,UpdateServices-UI-IncludeManagementTools – Delete\u00a0C:\\Windows\\WID […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,43,49,39,59,52,9,78,29,107,79,102,28],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mswin","tag-file","tag-http","tag-https","tag-iis","tag-lock","tag-log","tag-microsoft","tag-mmc","tag-server","tag-shell","tag-sql","tag-update","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.web-workers.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/7484.Restart-warning_01455B5B.png?fit=1437%2C788&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sxjX-1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}