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New to WSUS, looks good but have a problem, - no matter which OS option I choose, the cab download gets up to 40% and the hangs with the remaining download clock continuing to increment. Have I done something wrong?
thanks
Halil

Can you download http://download.windowsupdate.com/micro ... usscn2.cab in your browser, and does the file's signature verify ? To check the latter, right-click on the downloaded file, select Properties, tab Digital Signatures, double-click on one of them and see what it says.

Regards
Dalai

Evening Dalai,

File's been downloaded, 549.914 Mb in size. Digital Signature is OK, serial number is ‎33 00 00 01 b1 dd ed ba 54 e9 65 b8 5f 00 01 00 00 01 b1

regards

Halil

OK, did you try again in WSUS Offline? Perhaps it was only a temporary issue.

If the issue persists, please try the following: Open a command prompt in the wsusoffline\client\wsus directory* and type the following command

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..\..\bin\wget.exe --timestamping --server-response --progress=bar:noscroll "http://download.windowsupdate.com/microsoftupdate/v6/wsusscan/wsusscn2.cab"

and see if that works. If it doesn't, please post the output here.

*) To open the command prompt: In Explorer showing the correct directory, right-click on free space and select "Open command prompt here".

Regards
Dalai

Hi Dalai,

Tried again, failed. Log entry:

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18/04/2019 20:22:17.95 - Info: Starting WSUS Offline Update download (v. 11.6.2) for w61 glb
18/04/2019 20:22:17.97 - Info: Option /includedotnet detected
18/04/2019 20:22:18.01 - Info: Option /verify detected
18/04/2019 20:22:18.04 - Info: Option /exitonerror detected
18/04/2019 20:22:18.57 - Info: Set time zone to LOC-1:00
18/04/2019 20:22:19.64 - Info: Preserved custom language and architecture additions and removals
18/04/2019 20:22:20.38 - Info: Updated static and exclude definitions for download and update
18/04/2019 20:22:20.42 - Info: Restored custom language and architecture additions and removals
18/04/2019 20:22:20.67 - Info: Downloaded/validated mkisofs tool
18/04/2019 20:22:21.82 - Warning: Integrity database ..\client\md\hashes-wsus.txt not found
18/04/2019 20:22:27.92 - Info: Downloaded/validated most recent Windows Update catalog file
18/04/2019 20:22:29.59 - Warning: Deleted unsigned file "C:\Users\Halil\Downloads\wsusoffline1161\wsusoffline\client\wsus\wsusscn2.bak"
18/04/2019 20:22:29.60 - Warning: Deleted unsigned file "C:\Users\Halil\Downloads\wsusoffline1161\wsusoffline\client\wsus\wsusscn2.cab"
18/04/2019 20:22:29.62 - Error: Catalog file ..\client\wsus\wsusscn2.cab signature verification failure

tried what you suggested, appeared to be working then again stopped at 40Mb, getting:

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C:\Users\Halil\Downloads\wsusoffline1161\wsusoffline\client\wsus>..\..\bin\wget.
exe --timestamping --server-response --progress=bar:noscroll "http://download.wi
ndowsupdate.com/microsoftupdate/v6/wsusscan/wsusscn2.cab"
--2019-04-18 20:26:35--  http://download.windowsupdate.com/microsoftupdate/v6/ws
usscan/wsusscn2.cab
Resolving download.windowsupdate.com (download.windowsupdate.com)... 13.107.4.50

Connecting to download.windowsupdate.com (download.windowsupdate.com)|13.107.4.5
0|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Cache-Control: max-age=0
  Pragma: no-cache
  Content-Length: 563111068
  Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed
  Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 20:15:57 GMT
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  ETag: "803c3f8bb5ecd41:0"
  Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
  X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
  X-CID: 7
  X-CCC: US
  X-Azure-Ref-OriginShield: Ref A: A6040E8B133B453CB5386DA9DE868BB4 Ref B: AMS04
EDGE0922 Ref C: 2019-04-18T19:26:14Z
  X-MSEdge-Ref: Ref A: D1F5998E08EC4CD198AA613BAB5A3B5E Ref B: LTSEDGE0414 Ref C
: 2019-04-18T19:26:28Z
  Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:26:27 GMT
Length: 563111068 (537M) [application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed]
Saving to: 'wsusscn2.cab'

wsusscn2.cab          7%[>                   ]  40.00M  --.-KB/s    eta 21m 35s^
C
C:\Users\Halil\Downloads\wsusoffline1161\wsusoffline\client\wsus>

puzzling, stops downloading but clock keeps ticking. Assume this is the auto version of the download that I successfully did for you via the browser

Halil

kadirh2 wrote:puzzling, stops downloading but clock keeps ticking.

That's indeed strange. You mean the ETA keeps increasing? That's normal when the download rate drops.

Assume this is the auto version of the download that I successfully did for you via the browser

It is. See wsusoffline\static\StaticDownloadLinks-wsus.txt.

Something is resetting the connection established by wget. Do you use some kind of proxy? Do you have some internet security and/or firewall software running? What kind internet connection do you have? Is that connection reliable?

Regards
Dalai

Are you using avast! (or AVG) Antivirus? I had that effect with avast!. Excluding the whole WOU directory from web scanning fixed the issue.

Hi Dalai,

Using a 4G hub through 3 mobile which works ok for streaming, other downloads etc.

Hi Boco, yes using avast. Added to exceptions but still failing at 40% mark.

For security I normally use an ordinary win 7 user account, have tried with the administrator account but the same thing happens

Well puzzled

Halil

kadirh2 wrote:yes using avast. Added to exceptions but still failing at 40% mark.

Just to be clear: It fails at 40 MB, not 40%. Which exception list did you add the wsusoffline directory to? There are several in Avast, one for each module and a global one. Did you try disabling the Web scanner module (or whatever it's called nowadays), or all Avast modules temporarily?

Regards
Dalai

Sorry, it must be added to the exclusions of the resident web shield and the file shield. The reason is that avast automatically tries to scan and disinfect archives. It detects the (not yet complete) CAB archive (most updates including the catalog are CAB archives at the inside) and tries to scan it. While scanning it locks the file and wget fails.