Hello Team,

I have WSUS server running on windows 2003. it is having SQL express edtion installed on it for the DB.

SQL on that server got corrupted. SQL service is not appearing in services.msc. i have database on C drive.

at this moment i am getting error on WSUS as database cannot be connected. but if i approve the patches it is working properly.

Question.:-

if i reinstall SQL express will it keep exiting approvals intact or that will get affected?

Regards,

AVadhoot

can you successfully get metadata export using wsusutil.exe? if you can get that then it's no big deal as you can import it under the new database after you have rebuilt it

2003 though...you might just consider building up a new server with a supported OS and restoring the exported data

Hi Avadhoot,

You can refer to below link to export the metadata:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720437%28v=ws.10%29.aspx