Hi,

I am running WSUS version 3.0 and would to know if there is any
particular reason why I need to upgrade to 3.1?

I tried the upgrade earlier this year and the installation asked me to
remove the previous version (3.0) first before installing 3.1. If I go
ahead and remove the old version, would the 3.1 upgrade recognize the
information from the previous installation?

Thanks

"OM" <om> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am running WSUS version 3.0 and would to know if there is any particular
> reason why I need to upgrade to 3.1?

There's no reason not to upgrade.

> I tried the upgrade earlier this year and the installation asked me to
> remove the previous version (3.0) first before installing 3.1.

While I understand there's a lot of confusion around this process, one thing
I'm sure of is that the SP1 installer did not ask you to uninstall v3.0.

> If I go ahead and remove the old version, would the 3.1 upgrade recognize
> the information from the previous installation?

Maybe. I've not actually tried this. Typically there's the probability that
the application of the service pack (or upgrade from WSUSv2 to WSUSv3
definitely) is going to make schema modifications to the existing database.
If you uninstall WSUS 3.0 RTM, keep the database, and then install WSUS 3.0
SP1 and attach to that database, the installer may not be able to determine
that schema modifications need to take place.

If you truly want to do this, I would recommend setting up a test lab and
trying it in a test environment first.

Presuming you read the Release Notes, however, and address any issues
documented in the Release Notes, there's no reason not to simply perform the
installation of WSUS 3 SP1 directly to your existing WSUS 3.0 RTM system.

Thanks

I tried downloading the setup file and installed it (instead of
installing it from the Windows update). It didn't give me the warning
message about removing the old version of WSUS. However, the upgrade
failed and log the following in the wsussetup.log file.

Any idea? Thanks

2008-04-21 12:57:54 Success MWUSSetup Validating
pre-requisites...
2008-04-21 12:58:21 Error MWUSSetup
CSetupDriver::LaunchSetup: Setup is cancelled or an error occurred
(Error 0x80070642: User cancelled installation.)
2008-04-21 12:58:21 Success MWUSSetup User cancelled the setup
2008-04-21 12:58:22 Error MWUSSetup DoInstall: Wsus setup
failed (Error 0x80070642: User cancelled installation.)
2008-05-16 06:21:29 Success MWUSSetup Validating
pre-requisites...
2008-05-16 06:21:40 Error MWUSSetup
CSetupDriver::LaunchSetup: Setup is cancelled or an error occurred
(Error 0x80070642: User cancelled installation.)
2008-05-16 06:21:40 Success MWUSSetup User cancelled the setup
2008-05-16 06:21:41 Error MWUSSetup DoInstall: Wsus setup
failed (Error 0x80070642: User cancelled installation.)


Lawrence Garvin wrote:
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"OM" <om> wrote in message
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I am not sure why it got cancelled. I just tried the setup again and the
followings was logged. It looks like it has to do with backing up the
database. So what should I do next to identify the problem? Thanks

2008-06-02 09:38:21 Success MWUSSetup Validating
pre-requisites...
2008-06-02 09:38:26 Success MWUSSetup Creating database
backup...
2008-06-02 09:38:26 Error MWUSSetup ExecuteQuery: Failed
to execute SQL query BACKUP DATABASE SUSDB to DISK=N'F:\WSUS\SUSDB.bak'
(Error 0x80040E14)
2008-06-02 09:38:26 Error MWUSSetup
ExecuteQueryGetNoResults: Failed to execute query BACKUP DATABASE SUSDB
to DISK=N'%s' (Error 0x80040E14)
2008-06-02 09:38:26 Error MWUSSetup BackupDatabase: Failed
to backup database (Error 0x80040E14)
2008-06-02 09:38:26 Error MWUSSetup
CUpgradeDriver::PerformSetup: Failed to backup database (Error 0x80040E14)
2008-06-02 09:38:26 Error MWUSSetup
CSetupDriver::LaunchSetup: Setup failed (Error 0x80040E14)
2008-06-02 09:38:28 Error MWUSSetup DoInstall: Wsus setup
failed (Error 0x80040E14)


Lawrence Garvin wrote:
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"OM" <om> wrote in message
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>I am not sure why it got cancelled. I just tried the setup again and the
>followings was logged. It looks like it has to do with backing up the
>database. So what should I do next to identify the problem?

Two possibilities...

1. The SUSDB.bak file is left over from a previous attempt. The installer
will not overwrite an existing file.

2. The F:\WSUS folder does not exist, or the permissions are incorrectly
set, thus the installer cannot write to the folder. (NTAUTHORITY\Network
Service needs "Full Control" on the ~\WSUS folder.
[..]

Thanks

I renamed the old susdb.bak and the installation went smoothly.

Thanks again.

Lawrence Garvin wrote:
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