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WSUS synchronizing thousands of duplicate RealTek driver updates

Answered WSUS synchronizing thousands of duplicate RealTek driver updates

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  • Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:14 AM
     
     
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    Same problem here, and it is getting annoying
    When I saw that there where updates available I just approved them but the amounts of realtek drivers that are now requesting approval is just rediclious.
    Now I set syncing on manual but is there any way to solve this problem?
     
  • Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:27 AM
     
     
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    I've had over 10,000 of these synced to my WSUS server in the past 4 days - this is getting silly. Please advise someone at MS / Realtek.
     
  • Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:58 AM
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    Hi,
     
    I'll check if this is a WSUS problem. As a workaround, use the manually synchronization now.
     
    Thanks,

     
  • Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:05 AM
     
     
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    just confirming we have the same issue here on our SCE2007 WSUS Server, 12,000 Realtek drivers for AC97 audio
     
  • Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:11 AM
     
     
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    The question is what causes it, I don't think that it goes crazy on having an machine with realtek hardware in it
    There would be many more people with problems, I have realtek hardware in the WSUS server, I don't know if that could cause it but can you guys check if you got realtek hardware in your server?
    We should anyway execlude possible causes
     
  • Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:55 AM
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    Hi,


    For your information, a new article was posted on WSUS Product Team Blog, which discussed the root cause of this problem.

     

    So many drivers...
    http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2008/07/17/so-many-drivers.aspx


    In the short term, we will be making some publishing policy changes to ensure that drivers with a large number of hardware IDs don't flow to WSUS through WSUS/MU server synch. This doesn't mean the drivers won't be available to WSUS - they can still be imported from the MU catalog site (from the WSUS 3 UI, go to the "Updates" node and select "import..."). It's just that they won't flow automatically and surprise those who have added drivers to their synch options.


    Hope it helps.

     
  • Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:41 PM
     
     
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    Sad that over 2 years later I'm having the Same issue with WSUS on Win2008R2

    I have 27 thousand Updates!  Most all Realtek Audio AC97.

     
  • Friday, March 04, 2011 8:48 PM
     
     
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    Was there ever any solution to this? It looks like the short term solution was never implement. Well at least not on the long term. :)

    I'd happily not update any Realtek drivers ever again if it would remove them from my WSUS install.

    Thanks,

    Ted

     

     
  • Friday, May 25, 2012 5:38 PM
     
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    To help reduce the number of unapproved updates I created a new view and then selected all the programs that were not applicable to me or my network. Then simply disapprove all the updates in that view. It’s not a solution but does reduce the number of updates considerably.
    • Proposed As Answer by xcalaba Friday, May 25, 2012 5:38 PM
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