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Massive (and frustrating!) sync failures with WSUS

Posted on September 12, 2018 at 09:41 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Source: @jamiethornton

I’m seeing reports all over the web about failed sync on WSUS servers, trying to roll out this month’s patches.

SoapException: Fault occurred InvalidCookie

InvalidOperationException: Client found response content type of ”, but expected ‘text/xml’.

WebException: The operation has timed out.

The problems arose before this month’s round of security patches — see Günter Born’s report — but admins are seeing even more occurrences since Tuesday.

Removing Office 2016 and resyncing doesn’t seem to work.

Anybody out there figure out a way to fix it?

Windows Patches/Security InvalidOperationException, SoapException, WebException, WSUS sync failure

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