WSUS Offline Scan Catalog Fails to Sync on ConfigMgr 2007

Problems with SMS 2003 updates and Configuration Manager 2007.

The WSUS Offline Scan Catalog (wsusscn2.cab) fails to synchronize on a Configuration Manager 2007 or Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 site server using the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU).  This prevents security update deployments to SMS 2003 clients.   This is a result of an issue with updated content published for the Office 2003 Service Pack 1 update.

The issue can be identified in the Wsyncmgr.log on the ConfigMgr 2007 site server running the Software Update Point role.

The below log line entries are form Wsyncmgr.log file...

Performing legacy sync
STATMSG: ID=6709 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER" …
Started with command line: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\bin\i386\updatewuscatalog.exe …
Processing security catalog C:\Program Files\Microsoft Updates Inventory Tool\PkgSource\wsusscn2.cab ...
Initializing catalog C:\Program Files\Microsoft Updates Inventory Tool\PkgSource\wsusscn2.cab for synchronization.
Pre-processing updates...
Error 0x80004005, Unexpected DeploymentAction for update 1293995. Returned from CreateUpdateNode
Updates summary: 0 processed, 0 matched, 0 outdated, 0 updated

Microsoft is working on resolving this with the highest priority.

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