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Nass

Thank you for response and the link to the to the discussions group..

I did check the time on the client machine I was working on - I ran "net
time /domain:domain.com /set" - but it didn't help.

I have left the problem at work for the night and will follow up your
suggestion tomorrow.

Ed



"nass" wrote in message
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>
> "eddie" wrote:
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>> We have started using WSUS to get updates for all the windows servers and
>> clients on our network.
>> We have a WSUS server V2 happily getting updates from a parent server,
>> the
>> client WSUS settings(both server and XP) are are configured in an OU
>> policy.
>> We have a problem with the XP clients not reporting their status in the
>> WSUS
>> web browser - our servers do show which updates are required.
>>
>> All the settings in the user and computer templates appear ok.
>> We have the firewall service running but have switched the firewall off
>> on
>> our test machine - still no status report.
>> The update service and BITS service are running
>>
>> Does anyone know of any policy settings that might be preventing the XP
>> clients reflecting their status.
>>
>> Tks
>>
>> Ed
>
> Hi Ed,
> Is the time and date set correctly on the client machine(s)?.
> What happen if you Stopped the BITS then restart it again?.
>
> Here windows updates newsgroup if you need further help:
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&cat=en_US_56d1dd45-de9e-4fc5-9bc1-2d1d0de6daee&lang=en&cr=US
> Note: does the client machines configured to get the latest Updates for
> the
> page on the IE Browser settings under General >> Settings ?, it may still
> caching an old Page and showing the status.
> HTH.
> nass
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