

Ren %windir%\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old At the beginning of my digging, it was 6 days older than Last Contact.: “Error 80072EFE Windows Update encountered an error”Ģ) WSUS server and client domain firewalls are turned off.ģ) The following script ran successfully (WSUS “Last Status Report” shows not yet reported.

Typically, running a WSUS reset script fixes most WSUS communication issues, but not this time. We have hundreds of clients on our WSUS (2012 R2) server, and this is only one I know of (so far) that has this scenario. I’ve tried everything I can possibly find on the web. Even after fully updating from Microsoft Update, it still can’t check from the WSUS server. When checking for updates on Microsoft Update, it gets updates just fine. On a Win 7圆4 box (unfortunately, it’s one of my boss’s VMs), it gets error 80072EFE when checking updates from our WSUS server.
