Sunday, February 22, 2015

Server 2008R2 Standard giving "This copy of windows is not genuine" error, cannot run windows activation

I was wonder why my old server giving error to windows is not genuine... Some how this old server was activate with licence.

Here is the problem:
There is few services which is not started:

• Software Protection

• SPP Notification Service

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Clean Microsoft WSUS Content Folder


1) Correct any settings above or disapprove any approved updates.

2) Close any open WSUS consoles.

3) Go to Administrative Tools – Services and STOP the Update Services service.

4) In Windows Explorer browse to the WSUSContent folder (typically D:\WSUS\WSUSContent or C:\WSUS\WSUSContent)

5) Delete ALL the files and folders in the WSUSContent folder.

6) Go to Administrative Tools – Services and START the Update Services service.

7) Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder: C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools.

8) Run the command WSUSUtil.exe RESET

Refference: http://blogs.technet.com/b/gborger/archive/2009/02/27/what-to-do-when-your-wsuscontent-folder-grows-too-large.aspx