IT Open Day at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

With thanks to the 50 staff from across the University for attending please see below the links to the videos and PowerPoints of the day! Direct link to Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLRxbdlgJzwyjAf820T0u4GpP0E01a9LEX&v=u-GVJ_0VuRM Slides as PowerPoint Slides as PDF Stay tuned over the coming days for the scripts that are mentioned through the video which will be linked to from this post.



Clients not updating from WSUS – Code 8024400E

1 Image 1 of 3 Error 8024400E appears on the clients… After recently deploying a Windows Server 2012 R2 WSUS server (afraid we couldn’t wait much longer for 2016 (which is now out by the way!)) we started seeing Error 8024400E on our clients and servers (from 2008R2/Windows 7 to Server 2012 R2/Windows 10). As it transpires Microsoft published KB3159706 for… Read more



MDT does not apply WSUS updates

A silly gotcha more than anything else…. after recently updating my WSUS server to use SSL (to allow publishing through the firewall) I noticed my clients that were deployed with MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) were not installing updates as part of the Task Sequence; indeed the message log at the end indicated that the updates could not be downloaded as… Read more



WSUS Error – 80244022 or 8024402c

This time its the turn of Windows Update (powered by WSUS on Server 2008 R2) error 80244022 (sometimes seen as 8024402c). Had this error on my own Admin PC a few days ago while trying to run monthly updates, there is very little information about this error message out there however the main cause seems to be linked to the… Read more



Windows Update Error 800B0001

A few days ago some of our Windows 7 clients were having a Windows Update error, the specific message was Windows could not search for new updates An error occurred while checking for new updates for your computer. Error(s) found: Code 800B0001 Windows Update  encountered an unknown error. The funny thing was the clients could still get updates from Microsoft Update however… Read more