Purpose

The purpose of the document is to review a common error when publishing updates.

Symptoms

Exception occurred during publishing: CreateDirectory Failed

Cause

"C:\WSUS\UpdateServicesPackages" or "C:\WSUS\WsusContent" is not shared for System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP) or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).

Resolution

Navigate to "C:\WSUS\UpdateServicesPackages"/"C:\WSUS\WsusContent" then Share the directory and set permissions to:

• Admin's Group Full access
• Network Service Full access
• Everyone Read access
• WSUS Administrators Group Full access.

Set NTFS permissions to:

• Administrators Group Full access
• Network Service Full access
• System Full access
• Users Group Read/List Folder Read & Execute
• WSUS Admins Group Full access.

On your WSUS server open a command prompt with “run as admin”, Navigate to %programfiles%\update services\tools and issue the following command:

WSUSUtil.exe movecontent <content path> <log path>

If that doesn’t work, try moving the content to a temporary location and then move it back to the desired path.

Additional Information

To find out where the content and target directories are use the link below.

- Verifying WSUS Server Settings

Affected Product(s)

Shavlik Patch for Microsoft System Center (Formerly SCUPdates)

When publishing via:

System Center Update Publisher (SCUP)

Shavlik Patch Plugin 2.0.574.0

Shavlik Patch Plugin 2.1.801.0