SUS to WSUS Migration
Posted on 22 March 2006Yesterday, I have just installed the new WSUS (stands for Windows Server Update Services). I had a problem when migrating the old SUS server content to the new WSUS server. The documentation says that I should:
- Share the remote content on SUS (simply by sharing the SUS folder in the SUS server and ensure the permission is to read content for Everyone).
- Execute wsusutil.exe utility in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Server Update Services\Tools with the syntax:
wsusutil.exe migratesus /content LocationOfRemoteSUSContent /approvals SUSServerName “WSUSTargetGroupName” /log filename
Seems very simple, uh?? I decided to import the content first, then the approvals later; so I skipped the /approval SUSServerName “WSUSTargetGroupName” parameter. But I still had a problem after doing those steps. After executing wsusutil.exe, WSUS still shows the number of updates is zero. Luckily I found some simple method as follows:
- Import the SUS content (using wsusutil.exe migratesus /content LocationOfRemoteSUSContent /log filename)
- Set the WSUS server not to store updates locally, but download from Microsoft updates (from Advanced Synchronization options)
- Synchronize the WSUS server
- Import the SUS approval using wsusutil.exe migratesus /approvals SUSServerName “WSUSTargetGroupName” /log filename
- Change the Advanced Synchronization options to store the updates locally (please review other settings as well, since it may be resetted)
- Resynchronize the WSUS server for checking (don’t worry when you see “Updates needing files” status shows so many updates need to be downloaded; after some time, it will show “0″)
The step #2 and #3 are required to minimize the synchronization time and bandwidth since WSUS server will download the metadata only. Of course we need to do step #5 to configure WSUS server to store the updates locally (after all, it is one of our aims in implementing SUS/WSUS, isn’t it??).
Hopefully this document is useful for you who wants to migrate from SUS to WSUS. Happy WSUS-ing 
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