SUP Migration WUHandler Error CWuaHandler::SetCategoriesForStateReportingExclusion

Just want to put this up in case anyone else run in to this issue. I had to test migrated WSUS and SUP role from my Primary site server to its own standalone server, so I could complete the same task in production.

After the migration all updates showed as unknown for all devices. I check the update deployment log and WUAHandler.log under c:\Windows\CCM and the update scan started but just sat at  the below log output

Assignment({968F78AA-AE13-495C-83D9-74920944C702}) already in progress state (AssignmentStateDetecting). No need to evaluate

When I checked the WUAHandler log I could see the below but the site never registered the new WSUS server.

CWuaHandler::SetCategoriesForStateReportingExclusion called with {GUDI } for bundles

I checked the general bits like the site status, component status and wsyncmgr.log all where green and working correctly. I then checked a few post online and most pointed to a Content version / MinSourceVersion miss match issue from the WSUS DB.

I checked this and my content version was the same as in MinSourceVersion so that was not the issue.  I then had a look at the Window update registry key on the clients to see if the new WSUS was registered. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

It wasn’t 😦

Finally had a look boundary (Should have done this first ) and turns out I was a bit forgetful and didn’t add the new site server to the boundary group’s so no client’s where able to see the new SUP server.

Once I added to all boundary groups and did an update scan cycle all updates started to show a few hours later and the WUAHanlder log now showed the WSUS connection.

yay it’s all fixed 🙂

Point to take away, always add new site servers to boundary groups first 🙂