I ran into a situation recentlly where i needed to import a specific update from the Windows update catalog into WSUS (and in turn into SCCM)

I opened WSUS, clicked on “import updates”, seletced my update and was presented with

“This update cannot be imported into Windows Server Update Services, because it is not compatible with your version of WSUS”

Strange…. WSUS on 2016 is extremely similar to WSUS on 2012 R2… so whats going on here ?

Long story short… there seems to be issue with the url passed by the WSUS console when you click “import updates” to the browser.

When you first click on “Import updates”, IE will open (or you will use IE because it makes importing updates into WSUS easier) to

http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx?SKU=WSUS&Version=10.0.14393.2248&ServerName=<servername>&PortNumber=8530&Ssl=False&Protocol=1.20

Simply change the last part “1.20” to “1.80” – and importing updates will now work

i.e

http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx?SKU=WSUS&Version=10.0.14393.2248&ServerName=<servername>&PortNumber=8530&Ssl=False&Protocol=1.80