This will hopefully be a short post. The most likely reason the “approved” or “Declined” button is greyed out is the server you are connected to is a down stream WSUS server. What this means is that there is a WSUS server a little higher up the food chain that is dictating what updates you get /receive.
There are a couple of things that you can do:
Open Update Services MMC – OPTIONS – Update Source and Proxy Server
This will open a window that will tell you where the updates are coming from! Now if you need to specify different updates to computers that use you can uncheck “This server is a replica of the upstream server”. Once you’ve unchecked this you should be able to have a little bit more control off the updates.
I personally would just go to the upstream WSUS server listed in the “Update Source and Proxy Server” box and make the changes there.
Dennis Joven says
Hey Jared! Thank you! That really worked!
Nestor says
worked! thank you!