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The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable. "Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.CommandException: Failed to start and configure the WSUS service "

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Thought of sharing about a recent issue , I have faced with WSUS Post install config , where the WSUS  was failing to connect with the IIS Pool.  The post config log (stored under the temp folder) was throwing the below error - " StartServer encountered errors. Exception=The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable." "Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.CommandException: Failed to start and configure the WSUS service " Solution - after seeing the 2nd line of error (mentioned above) , it looked to me that somehow the WSUS Administration Website (within IIS) was not getting configured during the post installation tasks. For that I deleted the WSUS Administration Website within IIS -> and then started the Post Install Tasks again. This time the WSUS configuration got completed successfully . Hope sharing this experience , may help someone somewhere .

SQL Query- Which Distribution Points are used by the Clients , during content download . Including other download sources , used for downloading content.

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Sharing this query which will provide details of content download history, initiated by different clients and using different method of content download sources . It will also give info on the size of the content downloaded and on the content details too . Feel free to customize according to your Org. need SELECT s.Name0 as 'Device Name',ContentID = ContentID, 'Content Source' = HostName, 'Content Source Type' = CASE DistributionPointType WHEN 1 THEN 'Cloud Distribution Point' WHEN 2 THEN 'Management Point' WHEN 3 THEN 'Peer Cache' WHEN 4 THEN 'Distribution Point' WHEN 5 THEN 'BranchCache' WHEN 6 THEN 'DO Peer (Delivery Optimization)' WHEN 7 THEN 'DO Server (Delivery Optimization)' WHEN 8 THEN 'Microsoft Update' ELSE 'Unknown' END, 'Start DateTime' = StartTime, 'Bytes Downloaded' = BytesDownloaded FROM v_R_System s LEFT OUTER JOIN v_ClientDownloadHistoryDP_BG cdh ON s.Resourc