So lets say your on a domain with a WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) server and its either down, or you need to get some updates it hasn’t authorized, well here’s how to bypass it and revert to getting your windows updates from Microsoft.
Open up regedit, then navigate to
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU”
and locate the “UseWUServer” Key. Change the 1 to a 0 and your all set! The key name is the same in all versions of windows Ive had to do this on, so if the path fails just do a search for the key.
These steps can also solve randomly failing updates (Specifically Code 80072EE2)
Hope this helps someone out there!
