WSUS Problem After Upgrading SCCM serve from 2012 R2 to 2019

OK so here are the steps I took to remediate the issue, (at least for now):

1 – uninstall SUP from SCCM Console

2 – Uninstall WSUS Server role

3 – Reboot the server

4 – Remove WSUS Administration website from IIS manually.

5 – Detach the SUSDB database using SSMS

6 – Reinstall WSUS role on the server

7 – After the installation is completed, re-attach the SUSDB database and start he post

installation task for WSUS

8 – Add a new SUP role on SCCM

9 – IMPORTANT: uncheck all classifications on the “classification” page on SUP wizard

10 – Initiate the sync on WSUS, it will take quite a while

11 – Once that’s done, initiate a sync from the SCCM console, form the Software library section:

12 – You will see that the sync has been completed under Monitoring > Distribution Status > Software Update Point Synchronization Status. But nothing has been synced because nothing was selected.

13 – No head to Administration > Site Configuration > Sites. Choose the desired site and select site components > then choose Software Update Point :

14 – Now start adding classifications one by one and then try to initiate a sync from Software Library. You can monitor the process in wsyncmgr.log on SCCM server logs directory.

15 – This time you will notice that some updates might fail with the previous error:

Error: The Microsoft Software License Terms have not been completely downloaded and~~cannot be accepted. Source: Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.BaseApi.LicenseAgreement.GetById

But that does not deny other updates to be downloaded. The Sync status of the SCCM server will show failed:

However the new updates, the ones which were downloaded can be accessed and deployed from the software library now.

This is what I have come up with for now, and is good enough for me,

I will share anything else that comes up ( Let’s hope not )

The first sync after the upgrade can take some time. However, what is the error in the sync log? Did you have to re-install Wsus role as well? Did you re-intilize WSUS after you re-installed it?

OK so here are the steps I took to remediate the issue, (at least for now):

1 – uninstall SUP from SCCM Console

2 – Uninstall WSUS Server role

3 – Reboot the server

4 – Remove WSUS Administration website from IIS manually.

5 – Detach the SUSDB database using SSMS

6 – Reinstall WSUS role on the server

7 – After the installation is completed, re-attach the SUSDB database and start he post

installation task for WSUS

8 – Add a new SUP role on SCCM

9 – IMPORTANT: uncheck all classifications on the “classification” page on SUP wizard

10 – Initiate the sync on WSUS, it will take quite a while

11 – Once that’s done, initiate a sync from the SCCM console, form the Software library section:

12 – You will see that the sync has been completed under Monitoring > Distribution Status > Software Update Point Synchronization Status. But nothing has been synced because nothing was selected.

13 – No head to Administration > Site Configuration > Sites. Choose the desired site and select site components > then choose Software Update Point :

14 – Now start adding classifications one by one and then try to initiate a sync from Software Library. You can monitor the process in wsyncmgr.log on SCCM server logs directory.

15 – This time you will notice that some updates might fail with the previous error:

Error: The Microsoft Software License Terms have not been completely downloaded and~~cannot be accepted. Source: Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.BaseApi.LicenseAgreement.GetById

But that does not deny other updates to be downloaded. The Sync status of the SCCM server will show failed:

However the new updates, the ones which were downloaded can be accessed and deployed from the software library now.

This is what I have come up with for now, and is good enough for me,

I will share anything else that comes up ( Let’s hope not )

Hi, @Anthony Vand

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

Make sure we checked the correct Products as well and perform a synchronization.

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