WSUS 3.0 - Pathetic Downloads from Micrsoft update

[BrettSchoeman]

Hoping somebody can help me, I have installed WSUS 3.0 SP1 on windows server 2008 64bit. Eveything has intsalled fine, clients are loded etc.. but I have approved updates for download and they are coming down at about 1KB a sec. This is crazy as our line speed is much faster than this and if I do a manual download from Microsoft using IE than I get speeds of up to 60KB a sec. At this rate it willl take weeks just to download 50MB of updates and I have about 1.2GB to get through.

I have done some searching and people keep mentioning the WSUSdebugtool but I can't find it to download and it is not in my c:\program files\update servicies\tools folder? The reckon it has something to do with the bits protocal?

Please can somebody help because at the moment it s useless because you can't download the updates.

Thanks,
Brett

BrettSchoeman schrieb:

> I have done some searching and people keep mentioning the WSUSdebugtool
> but I can't find it to download and it is not in my c:\program
> files\update servicies\tools folder? The reckon it has something to do
> with the bits protocal?

WsusDebugTool.exe /Tool:SetForegroundDownload

Download:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...bug%20Tool.EXE

I don't know the tool is running on a 64bit machine.

Winfried
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Winifried,

I have tried running this after installing WSUSdebugtool to the following
directory c:\program files\update services\tools but unfortunatly when I run
you command I get the following error message and the tool can't run?

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or
ass
embly 'Microsoft.UpdateServices.Common, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
Public
KeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot
find th
e file specified.
File name: 'Microsoft.UpdateServices.Common, Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, P
ublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'
at Microsoft.SoftwareDistribution.Tools.SusServerTool.Main(String[] args)

WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value
[HKLM\Software\M
icrosoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind
failure lo
gging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fus
ion!EnableLog].

"Winfried Sonntag [MVP]" wrote:

> BrettSchoeman schrieb:
>
> > I have done some searching and people keep mentioning the WSUSdebugtool
> > but I can't find it to download and it is not in my c:\program
> > files\update servicies\tools folder? The reckon it has something to do
> > with the bits protocal?
>
> WsusDebugTool.exe /Tool:SetForegroundDownload
>
> Download:
> http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...bug%20Tool.EXE
>
> I don't know the tool is running on a 64bit machine.
>
> Winfried
> --
> http://www.microsoft.com/germany/win...s/default.mspx
> http://www.wsuswiki.com/Home
>

Brett schrieb:

> I have tried running this after installing WSUSdebugtool to the following
> directory c:\program files\update services\tools but unfortunatly when I run
> you command I get the following error message and the tool can't run?

Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922330

Winfried
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I clicked the link provided http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922330

and ran the command

If you are using WSUS 3.0 with a Windows Internal Database that was created
by a default WSUS installation, type the following command:

%programfiles%\Update Services\Setup\ExecuteSQL.exe -S
%Computername%\MICROSOFT##SSEE -d "SUSDB" -Q "update tbConfigurationC set
BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1"

my updates are now coming down at the correct speed and it has solved the
problem 100%. Thanks again, I can't belive that ini all the FAQ and the wsus
site there is no metion of this fix. It is such a huge oversight on
microsofts part as this is a critical fix that I am sure is needed by may
people.

Brett schrieb:

> my updates are now coming down at the correct speed and it has solved the
> problem 100%. Thanks again,

Thanks for response. ;)

Winfried
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"Brett" <Brett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C84A30D3-C882-4ADD-B3B2-A822FD388992@microsoft.com...
>I clicked the link provided http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922330
>
> and ran the command
>
> If you are using WSUS 3.0 with a Windows Internal Database that was
> created
> by a default WSUS installation, type the following command:
>
> %programfiles%\Update Services\Setup\ExecuteSQL.exe -S
> %Computername%\MICROSOFT##SSEE -d "SUSDB" -Q "update tbConfigurationC set
> BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1"
>
> my updates are now coming down at the correct speed and it has solved the
> problem 100%. Thanks again, I can't belive that ini all the FAQ and the
> wsus
> site there is no metion of this fix. It is such a huge oversight on
> microsofts part as this is a critical fix that I am sure is needed by may
> people.

Brett, it's not an oversight.

It's a non-standard configuration, primarly created for =diagnostic=
purposes.

The NORMAL and CORRECT functioning of the WSUS system is to have BITS work
in background mode (BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=0), so that it doesn't
suck your Internet pipe dry while it's downloading gigabytes of content
during normal operations.

The primary reason why it becomes necessary to enable foreground mode is
because some device in your infrastructure has not been properly upgraded,
and is not fully supporting the HTTP v1.1 protocol specification.

--- or, sometimes, just because the admin doesn't understand that downloads
are supposed to be "slow" in the WSUS environment -- it's By Design!

--
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)

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