Nice to Know – After in place upgrade of Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016 with WSUS install, Post Install might fail

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Note:

Ok, so you might not do an in-place upgrade, instead you re-install the entire server, but “if” you do, you need to run this command sometimes

Configuration failed for Windows Server Update Services…

Open an elevated command prompt and execute the following

For Windows Internal Database (WID)
%programfiles%\update services\tools\wsusutil.exe postinstall CONTENT_DIR=C:\WSUS

SQL Server databases
%programfiles%\update services\tools\wsusutil.exe postinstall CONTENT_DIR=C:\WSUS SQL_INSTANCE_NAME=<database server name>

George Simos says:

April 25, 2017 at 22:21

Reblogged this on Configuration Manager Stories and more :-) and commented:
A good tip from the “Deployment Bunny” AKA Mikael Nyström regarding the in-place upgrade of a Windows Server 2012 R2 hosting WSUS and it’s SQL instance to Windows Server 2016.