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This page serve as a diary for the WSUS Wiki site. As you add or update content, if you have questions, or even delete content, post here to explain why. Also you can use this as a place to discuss WSUS WIKI.

For an index of all earlier diary entries, see WSUS Wiki Diary Index.

Sunday March 05

David Dehghan Guys - Any comments on this thread? http://forums.susserver.com/index.php?showtopic=458

Tuesday March 15

skatterbrain I made some minor spelling corrections on the WSUS Deployment Guide page and added three bulleted items (Network Bottlenecks, Update Types, Client Types)

Also updated WSUS Before You Deploy page to add two bulleted items.

Monday March 21

David Dehghan So folks at edime changed the site url slightly prematurely. But that is ok. For now none of the external links are broken because there is a dummy site under the old URL. In the next few days we need to do a couple of things in order to finish the site migration without a problem.

Monday March 21

skatterbrain I went through and edited "WUS" to say "WSUS" wherever it appeared to make sense and/or was overlooked. If I went too far, roll me back or send a virtual b-slap and I'll back off. :)

[[thomaslee] ]In a couple of places, I've clarified things - WUS Beta 2 is not WSUS <grin>. SO to ensure things are clear - where the text is talking about WUS Beta 2, I've tried to make clear that this may be different from WSUS RC (or even WSUS RTM). In a number of cases, we'll need to wait till the RC is out to make some chanages (e.g. to how the WSUS product actually works). I can't wait for the RC!

David Dehghan Name change status:

Done:

• I have renamed all the pages that has WUS in them. and updated the stats tool. So we are back in business: http://beta.fotolove.com/default.aspx
• By renaming the pages instead of creating new pages I saved all the page creation history. This was one of the key requirements of the name chage work.

TODO:

• Look for any absolute paths in the site and convert them to relative paths. links to http://wus.editme.com/MyPage should change to /Mypage. Please help out with this work item.
• Change the page titles where they refer to WUS to WSUS. Please help out with this.
• Fix the image URLs.
• Fix broken links.

Tuesday March 22

Thomas Lee Hours to go before formal lift off - I have the RC now and am preparing my system for installation. I've been fixing the issues I can find. I've got two search pages that may help us - I'll post the urls in a second.

David Dehghan Well, RC is finally out. And our wiki is migrated to a new URL and most links are fixed. We can start blasting the blogesphere, newsgroups and forums and get the word out about RC and wiki. The name change has caused a lot of revisions on the site: http://beta.fotolove.com/default.aspx but in order to stay relevant we need more content and uptodate content.

Watch out for RC install issues and bugs and keep refering users form newsgoup here. Yesterday I searched entired OEP news group for keyword editme.com to see how many times we have had people refere to wiki. Unfortunately it was prettly low. We can do better in that department.

Wednesday March 23

Thomas Lee I fixed all the references to wusutil (now wsusutil). I'm slowly getting through all the changes needed to just change the name. I'm also going to re-do the installation section again and ensure the screen shots are correct! Right now, there's a mish mash of "WSUS does" ... "stuff in WUS", if you see what I mean. We're getting there.

David Dehghan I just saw this comment:

I think he is right. I certainly have contributed to that problem. ;-( I don't know what I was thinking. I just replaces WUS with WSUS.

Also - PLEASE don't delete a page and create new one for the same topic. This will delete all the page history. I can rename a page with the administrator account. This will conserve the page history. just let me know what pages to rename.

Thursday March 24

David Dehghan OK. I think the way to fix the confusion with information about B2 vs RC is to get rid of Beta2 information that is not relevant any more. No one is going to see beta 2 code again. So lets get rid of that info that no one is going to need. for example B2 bug reports. If they are fixed in RC, which i hope they are ;-) lets delete that info.

I cleaned up this page. more cleaning is needed Known WSUS Issues

Thomas Lee I agree with removing B2 stuff. As for the bugs,there is one not fixed in RC1, and another new one (which was a bug in B2 but I never posted it here). I'm in agreement we should remove B2 stuff sooner rather than later. NB: we'll have a similar issue at RTM).

Marked a couple of pages for deletion, including david's and athif's suggestions at the wiki menu - which has now been adopted!

Tidied up a few more pages.

Saturday March 26

Thomas Lee Updated known issues page. I added a few known issues, based on my closed bug reports <grin>. We should consider how to describe these though. The column width issue, for example, is a minor one, but one folks will encounter. Maybe we need two types of issues: actual bugs in the RC prodcuct (that are to be fixed for RTM), vs stuff that just works that way (eg wuauclt.exe gives no output, or the column widths issue).

I continue the hunt for WUS stuff for removal! In terms of the known issue pages, I'm moving B2 issues to either the 'resolved' list or to the 'known issues with RC' list.

Thinking about it, we should gradually remove all B2 content. What is a reasonable time period for this.

Sunday March 27

Mohammed Athif Khaleel

I am glad to be awarded as MVP on Thu, 24 Mar 2005.

Ok. I have been very busy for the past couple of days and couldn't take a look at the wiki.

Thomas & David thanks for the whole re-vamp and I think more than 60% of job is done. Ok quickly, can we have a list of TO DO's so that I can share the load. Yes, I think we should remove the B2 content as well as add content related to RC. To me the best practice would be to identify the content to be removed, then add the new content related to RC & then remove the B2 content so that we give all the content related to RC prior to deleting the content in B2. And the same exercise at the time of RTM.

David Dehghan Athif, Congratulations ;-). You can help on the installation guide. The sceen shots and the text should be updated. Please use PNG file format for the screen shots. (they are small and readable)

I added a number of new pages for Best practices. As this wiki matures best practices become more and more valuable. It is very hard for Microsoft to comeup with these best practices. Because we don't know numerous the configurations and the environments that customers are operating under. So lets get the users to share their best practices.

It would be interesting to see how the best practices section develops. It is much harder type of content to develop.

Monday March 28

Thomas Lee Continued the relentless search for WUS and remove it!! Also - have added stuff that needs to be done to To Do Page

Tuesday March 29

Mohammed Athif Khaleel I have added a couple of new pages and some new content;

http://wsus.editme.com/ConfirmedWSUSBugs
http://wsus.editme.com/WSUSServerFAQ
http://wsus.editme.com/WSUSFAQ
http://wsus.editme.com/Encryptionkeycannotberetrieved
http://wsus.editme.com/SelfUpdateTreeisnotworking
http://wsus.editme.com/UnknownStatus

David Dehghan What to see something cool? look at the attachment on this page http://wsus.editme.com/WikiStats I wrote a tool that searched all the wiki sites on editme and created a file for each of them. I wanted to look and see what was the biggest site on editme.com and how did we compare to them. Take a look at the content of that zip file and sort it by size. ;-)

Wednesday March 30

[[ThomasLee] There are a number of pages marked for deletion - can "Doctor Death" call on this site soon and delete them??
Dr. Kavorkian - I zapped them all last night ;-)

David Dehghan I got a DNS name for us. http://www.wsuswiki.com/ cool eh? Now we can refer to our site with a more professional URL. And if editme goes out of business we can take our wiki to a new service and redirect the DNS to that new place. i was allways unfomfortable having editme in our url.

you can start using this url in blogs or news group postings.

Did you guys look at the zip file that I posted last night? It is interesting to see what other wiki sites have done.

Thursday March 31

Mohammed Athif Khaleel Hey david, that's cool man. I got an index of all the links of WSUS Wiki and thats one thing I wanted. New DNS Name is perfect. Why dont we use the new site http://www.wsuswiki.com/ instead of http://wsus.editme.com ? What do you think? I prefer to go with http://www.wsuswiki.com/

Added to [[Confirmed WSUS Issues]]
Added a Known Issue Flaw in Client Diagnostic Tool
Added a New Page Computer halts during setup of Windows Installer 3.1 beta
Added new page Flaw in Client Diagnostic Tool
Added new page Flaw in Forced Un Install of WUS Beta
Updated the bugs page with links and re-arranged the content.

Added to Cloned or Imaged PCs in WSUS Server FAQ
Added a FAQ item, "Does XP SP2 supports uninstallation through the "Remove" approval in WSUS?"
Added new page Un Install XP SP 2 thru WUS
Added new page Agent Failed Detecting with Error 0x8024400d

Added new page Sql Date Time Overflow
Added new page SOAP Fault 0x00012c

Added more new [[Confirmed WSUS Issues]]

Thomas Lee

The new name is cool - I'll blog it right away!!   U

Also http://wsuswiki.com works too. COOL!

FWIW: I've updated the menu to now point to www.wsuswiki.com