Hi @Sterling, G ,
Publishing operation failed because the console and remote server versions~~do not match
Yes , you are right. This is a fairly straight forward issue that will occur whenever the WSUS console version does not match the version installed on the WSUS server.
We could move SUP/WSUS first and then upgrade the site server to Windows 2019 to match the version.
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