+1 just rebuild a new server and change your GPO to point to the new one.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 11:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Advice on migrating WSUS 3.0 SP2 from Win2003 32bit to Win2008 R2

I have moved WSUS servers twice. It isn't worth it, just redo it. It doesn't 
take that long to mass approve the updates.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 11:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Advice on migrating WSUS 3.0 SP2 from Win2003 32bit to Win2008 R2

I've asked this on the WSUS list over at PatchManahement.org, but while I am 
waiting on their wisdom, I thought I would ask here, as well.

I am using WSUS 3.0 SP2 on a Win2003 SP2 VM, and I need to move it to a Win2008 
R2 VM, and while I am it, change the server name.

Since I posted on the other list, I have determined (I think) that my database 
is the default Windows Internal database. I have a SUSDB.MDF file, and a 
separate SUSDB.BAK in a different folder. I must have set that backup up at one 
point, and pointed it to that backup folder, but it was so long ago, I've 
forgotten, and there is no documentation here.

I found this link - "How to move WSUS from one server to another"
<http://blogs.technet.com/b/sus/archive/2009/07/02/how-to-move-wsus-from-one-server-to-another.aspx>,
This blog post is 3.5 years old; is it still valid? Almost all the comments say 
this procedure did not work for them. If not, is there a better step-by-step 
guide?

Thanks for any help.

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