WSUS stuck on Determining Windows Licensing

[aker]

WU on Windows 7 is currently really slow. There is not much you could do, to decrease the required time. Currently (Windows Updates 04-2016 for a W7 System with all Updates until 2016-03 took 2h on my computer).

Just as a note: You are able to get an ISO-file from MS, if you have a valid product key.

[FrankH]

aker, WU does seem to be taking much longer to list updates than with last month's updates. I also have a PC that had all current updates up to and including 2016-03, which took only about 10 minutes to list the updates last time, now took 31 minutes for the 2016-04 updates. This is a Windows 7 SP1 x64 PC with a i3-4130 @ 3,4 GHz, 8 Gigs of RAM, and a SSD, so not slow by any means. I can imagine that on slower PCs the listing could take very long indeed.

Anybody have any ideas on why the difference from last month, or how to troubleshoot this? I already tried using a fresh installation of wsusoffline 10.6.1 and re-downloading all updates, but no joy.

[Denniss]

http://sm.krelay.de/wu/en/

After installing KB3145739 and reboot the search for further updates should be much quicker.

[FrankH]

Thank you Denniss! This patch also worked well for me. On a Windows 7 PC patched up to 2016-03, the listing of missing updates was not finished after an hour. I terminated the script, installed the patch, rebooted, and restarted WU. It finished the listing in 7 minutes.

[Sambrook]

WU on Windows 7 is currently really slow. There is not much you could do, to decrease the required time. Currently (Windows Updates 04-2016 for a W7 System with all Updates until 2016-03 took 2h on my computer).

Just as a note: You are able to get an ISO-file from MS, if you have a valid product key.

Thank you. Windows Update did take a while but it worked. Very pleased.

I do have a valid product key, but my desktop came with Win7 preinstalled. Microsoft website says to contact computer manufacturer. Is there a way I can still download the ISO?