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kwester-ebbinghaus-business
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Jan 06, 2022
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ISSUE: Cannot import updates to WSUS, due to erroneous redirection in Windows Update Catalog

Scenario: Management Host: Windows Server 2022 Build 20348.405 WSUS Server: Windows Server 2019 Build 10.0.17763.1971 Microsoft Edge Release 96.0.1054.62   Repro Steps: - Edge is your default b...
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    kwester-ebbinghaus-business
    Jan 13, 2022

    abbodi1406 

    I have spent more time into the testing and found out that it worked in a VERY specific configuration. So to say must be exactly this configuration as you stated.
    Bummer. 

     

    ONE MAY NOT USE https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/ in the exception 
    While these pages can be technically reached, they do not work correctly and will not redirect. Imho this is still a server-side config issue on the IIS 10.

    1. It only works as expected when you use the link without www. It does not work with the www. anymore.

    2. you need to actually add both links. One or the other won't be enough anymore.
    Both was till November 2021. But no more.

    3. really remove any other links in the scope of *.catalog.microsoft.com

    4. close all catalog.microsoft.com tabs and restart the browser (just in case you have set that Edge should reopen all tabs on next start)

     

    Thank you abbodi1406 I will update my guide accordingly. 

     

    Eds1989 can you please confirm this solution worked for you?

     

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Eds1989
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Jan 12, 2022
Hello,

We too seem to be experiencing this issue.

WSUS server is Windows Server 2022.
Client machine is Windows 11 running RSAT and managing/importing updates remotely.
Edge 96 is my default browser, but running the update catalogue site in IE mode with the ActiveX control installed.

We can search for and add updates to our basket, but when proceeding to the basket, we are told they could not be imported because they are not compatible with our version of WSUS.
The update we are trying to import is KB5010197.

I have tried to add the /v7/site part to our catalogue URL as a workaround, but I get a site/page error.
Our URL loaded when clicking import updates is of the format:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx?SKU=WSUS&Version=10.0.20348.143&ServerName=OUR_SERVER_NAME&PortNumber=8530&Ssl=False&Protocol=1.20

Are there any other potential workarounds to this issue at this time?

Many thanks
James

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