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Automatic approval in WSUS not working for existing updates. Why?
Fix automatic approval rules not approving existing updates.
John Savill
March 2, 2017
1 Min Read
Q. I created an automatic approval rule in WSUS but its not working for existing updates. What can I do?
Dept - WSUS
A. When automatic approval rules are created all future synchronized updates follow the rules however if you have already downloaded a large number of updates then creating an automatic approval rule post synchronization will not approve the already downloaded updates. To solve this simply manually run the rule:
Open the WSUS console
Navigate to Options - Automatic Approvals
Select the approval rule and click Run Rule
Once complete a status will be shown that summarizes all the approved updates. Click Close
Click OK to close the rule
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