Hi Folks, We have been hearing reports from some customers who use WSUS that they have been having trouble accessing their administration consoles. We have confirmed the cause of this issue and fixed it on our servers, which will automatically fix...

Hi Folks - I wanted to get back to you with more information and guidance around the Windows Desktop Search (WDS) issue and the results of our investigation today. As you know, Windows Desktop Search was published last February 07, as an optional...

Some customers have reported that update package for KB917013 was being deployed to WSUS clients without having approved the update for installation on their WSUS servers. The original update release, released February 2007 as an optional update, was...

A few people on the microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services newsgroup mentioned concern over a flood of ATI Radeon Graphic Card updates. There were close to 4000 sync'ed recently to their WSUS 3 and WSUS 2 servers, and there was worry that something...

Hi Folks - Want to make sure you all know that if you want to stay up on important information re: update content coming to WSUS servers, be sure to check the Microsoft Update team blog here: http://blogs.technet.com/mu/ . Today for example, there is...

In my last entry on new powershell API samples , I mentioned providing some tips and tricks for automated reporting from your WSUS server in conjunction with Excel. This will help walk you through creating a trending report for various interesting...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/sus/server/default.mspx?mfr=true Sorry it's a bit of a slow process - but we're still trying to trickle out more API examples based on scenario requests from customers and ISVs. 3 more scripts...

WSUS 3.0 is also available via the Beta Microsoft Update Catalog! The new beta MU Catalog provides access to all content in the Microsoft Update service, and also includes integration with WSUS 3.0. This will enable you to import drivers, generally...

For those of you who may have not "synched" yet today, I'm also pleased to let you know the latest MSI.dll fix addressing it's portion of the Svchost/msi issue (KB927891) is also available via WU and WSUS today! -Bobbie

Hi Folks- Just wanted to let you know - today is the day two updates will be available to you to assist in your management and deployment of WSUS 3.0. First ,we are making an update available for WSUS 2.0 SP1, which will create a 3.0 "self update...

There has been a re-release of the Office 2007 security and non –security updates released May 8 th . The re-release has changed the detection logic however none of the actual binaries in the updates have been modified. Reapproval will not impact any...

Hi - Touching base back on our testing results in reproducing the "svchost/msi issue" system hang, lock and/or unresponsive behaivor reports. After installing the new 3.0 client, and the MSI fix (KB927891) referenced in yesterdays' post, we tested scan...

Hi Folks – Just want to make sure you know we are actively following up on the comments posted on the svchost/msi issue. We are working on reproducing the reported performance issues on various systems in our labs. We will keep you posted as to...

CAPICOM is an ActiveX control, scriptable interface, and COM object redistributed by Microsoft, 3rd party applications, and web sites. More information about the functionality offered through CAPICOM is available on MSDN in the whitepaper "About CAPICOM...

Please check out the WSUS 3.0 community for great peer, MVP, and subject matter expert support and, update management idea exchanges. Some locations inlcude: Newsgroups: Microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services Other great community sources...

We are thrilled to announce that WSUS 3.0 has released today April 30th and is avaialble now on the Microsoft Download Center. Full information, documentation, samples and links to the bits can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus . We will...

Have you checked out our homepage lately? Who says you can't get something for nothing? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/wsus/default.mspx

Hi Folks In addition to the next week’s WSUS 3.0 release, we are making the new client portion available via the following plan to our customers who continue to experience performance issues like UI hang and long scan times. The new WUA client addresses...

Things are starting to get a little quieter here as we finish out the final tasks for this release. One of those tasks is to help developers build on the product, and make something even better than what we're already providing. To that end, several...

Hi Folks - Just a post to our many RC beta partners dilligently testing WSUS v3 RC in our public program. First off, many, many thanks for the really impressive testing and awesome feedback you've provided so far on the WSUS 3 RC release. ...

Want another cool reason to check out the WSUS 3.0 Release Candidate now in public beta, (available after registration from http://connect.microsoft.com )? Well here's one:) The Microsoft Update Catalog Site Alpha is now ready and integrated wtih the...

Hi Folks – Ive heard some confusion on the handling of the update approval for MS07-010 / KB932135 released last Tuesday, Feb 12 th . For the few of you who subscribe to Windows Defender Definition Updates but DON’T have your auto approvals set...

Exchange Admins ~ We have publiched to MU the DST change for Exchange 2003 SP1 as a critical update on MU. Description: This is an update for Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007 for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Classification...

Hi WSUS Admins - Just a reminder, the DST update made available to your WSUS servers today (KB931836) is classified as an update rollup so AU and SMS/ITMU pick it up too. For WSUS that means, you'll want to make sure either to modify your auto approval...

The WSUS 3.0 product team is pleased to announce the availability of WSUS 3.0 RC, published this morning at 9:00am. The WSUS 3.0 RC is available from Connect.Microsoft.com. WSUS 3.0 RC delivers new features that enable admins to more easily manage and...