Wsus update services failed to start

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. It took me at least one hour to finally figure it out. Net v4. Once done, I started the Post-installation again and it went all the way to the end successfully without any further issues.

Thank you so much, i had search for this problem so long. I had upgraded the Server from to new installation not possible there are too many programs would reinstall from the publishers self after then WSUS post install give errors and errors and errors. Greetings from Germany. Thank you!!! Shrink your WSUSContent folder's size by declining multiple types of updates including by default any superseded updates, preview updates, expired updates, Itanium updates, and beta updates.

Clean out all the synchronization logs that have built up over time configurable, with the default keeping the last 14 days of logs. Compress Update Revisions. Remove Obsolete Updates. Computer Object Cleanup configurable, with the default of deleting computer objects that have not synced within 30 days.

Application Pool Memory Configuration to display the current private memory limit and easily set it to any configurable amount including 0 for unlimited. This is a manual execution only. Checks to see if you have a dirty database, and if you do, fixes it. Run the Server Cleanup Wizard. It will email the report out to you or save it to a file, or both.

Although the script is lengthy, it has been made to be super easy to setup and use so don't over think it. There are some prerequisites and instructions at the top of the script. After installing the prerequisites and configuring the variables for your environment email settings only if you are accepting all the defaults , simply run:. See Get-Help. I tried the above mentioned option, it didn't work.

Repeated the set of instructions again, it didn't work. CreateDefaultSubscription StartServer encountered errors. The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen.