WSUS 403 forbidden issue

Hey All,

if you are getting a 403 error when windows clients are attempting to access your local wsus server on 2008 server, it may be due to the fact that during install, the default website was selected as the host for your clients to connect to.

there is nothing wrong with that, unless you have a proxy server setting. if you do, this is where the 403 error comes from.

the way to get around this quite bluntly is to uninstall wsus, reinstall and select to create a new website under the port 8530 - this will work first go, no problems.

also in your wsus GPO, remember that the server name you need to enter is http://hostnameofyourserver.domain.etc:8530

without doing this, your GPO will not work correctly and your clients will also not update!