Content file download failed. Reason: File cert verification failure

I might wait until Monday evening, as I am not in tomorrow birthday! Reading the Powerpoint slides and finding the video on youtube the video doesn't work on the site you provided but can be found elsewhere , I can see I have my work cut out for me! But I have one foolish? Thanks for the info - downloaded the vid just in case it disappears, along with the whitepaper and powerpoint I do think that you should implement the SSL Manual steps in KB irregardless of the fact for future proofing down the line if you didn't know about this stuff and you tried doing the SSL, you'd have a HELL of a time figuring out that it was this 2 sections of code in a Web.

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Information Title. Certificate errors when downloading or installing third-party updates to clients or software distribution points. Last month when I didn't find a solution, I completed rebuilt the R2 server from the ground up. Then I started approving needed updates so that my wsus would be all inclusive for anything being built from scratch.

The first round seemed to download and install just fine. Then upon approving a second massive round of updates, I started getting the same error messages again and nothing will download.

I also had the OS look out to MS for it's updates to get them fully complete direction from MS instead of internally in case it needed any kind of certs or something that my local WSUS instance wasn't getting.

I had found this article about possible causes, but it's a crap article because there is nothing listed for possible solutions:. They are both going out the same pipe and firewalls so I can't see it being any kind of transfer issues. Hopefully someone else can help me out with suggestions.

Since I got an initial approval to go through on a fresh install, I could go through and rebuild it from scratch yet again, then approve updates in smaller batches to try to get an idea of WHEN they start to fail downloading. But that is a VERY time consuming process and would like to avoid that if possible. E DIT: specifically for you, this part:. All rights reserved. Covered by US Patent. Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community!

WSUS cannot download any new updates starting a few weeks ago. I see a number of event logs similar to the one below. I am running Windows R2 and have looked in the optional updates section but do not see any root certificate updates for that machine.