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Neil Gascoigne
AskWoody LoungerHello everyone
As per my earlier Tweet with Woody, we saw this earlier today in the office with 1903 users. I’ve implemented a GPO to add
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search
DWORD BingSearchEnabled = 0Prior to applying the GPO on my own 1903 PC, search worked normally. I performed a gpupdate /force believing the new GPO to be applied and got the blank search fly-out. Killed SearchUI.exe, which was found to be in a suspended state and still the same. But the registry showed the GPO was not applied through a mistake of our making.
Odd then that the gpupdate instigated the fault even though the 365 back-end is the root cause.
Applying the registry entry above correctly and kicking SearchUI.exe resolved it for us.
Cheers
-Neil-
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Neil Gascoigne
AskWoody LoungerSeptember 13, 2018 at 5:01 am in reply to: Massive (and frustrating!) sync failures with WSUS #217255Starting working again for us sometime between 0700 to 1900 (UTC) on 10th September. All synchronisations since then have been successful.
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Neil Gascoigne
AskWoody LoungerHi
First post and un-lurking.
Reviewing the June updates today via AskWoody, I see on the referred ghacks post a need for a May servicing stack update (SSU). Which made me think, yup, probably not yet deployed within my WSUS server. I take the cautious route for only releasing security, rather than functional, updates so SSUs are classified within the “Updates” class.
I think Susan must have been thinking about this recently because via a search, this pretty much came within the first few results:
Seemingly didn’t get very far? If only WSUS had a regex filter…
I’ll just add a +me too because missing these SSUs is annoying and means you have to keep reading resources like here (thanks Team Woody) like a hawk.
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