For the past few months I've been having a hard time with WSUS on my Windows Server 2016 machine. When it works, it works...but if I need to change a setting, or cleanup the database, or decline old updates, really anything beyond approving new updates it just dies. And the only way I've been able to bring it back to life is to use my computer backup software and recover the machine to before it broke. I'm hoping that someone with much more know how on WSUS can help me diagnose and fix this thing, it would really make my life a lot easier and I'd appreciate that. Haha
When WSUS breaks, this is typically always the error log it spits out at me.
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The WSUS administration console was unable to connect to the WSUS Server Database. Verify that SQL server is running on the WSUS Server. If the problem persists, try restarting SQL....