We have posted a draft for the steps to update or migrate a WSUS MSDE or WMSDE database to a full version of SQL 2000 on the local or a remote server. This draft is previewed on the WSUS wiki at: http://www.wsuswiki.com/UpgradingMSDEtoSQL2000 . When finalized...

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...

WSUS Admins: I wanted to let you know about a new product category you will be able to see in your synch options product dialog. The product is called Microsoft Codename Max which is a new consumer beta offering from Microsoft. While this product category...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Hi Folks; Got a lot of feedback today on the size of the SQL Server 2005 SP1 update released to WSUS 5/23. Most folks were reporting approx 6.7GB download size. After d igging into this issue we found there was an issue with the metadata where the per...

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...

Today we're super pleased to announce the release of our first public beta for WSUS 3.0. Pre-ceeded by a private TAP beta, beta 2 went live today, August 14th at 9:30 PDT. Windows Server Update Services 3.0 delivers new features enabling administrators...

I thought I blogged about this already but I failed on that. So here it is. Exchange 2003 IMF updates where paused for the month of December and will restart on the 17th of this month. The last published is 11/30/2006 Scott Roberts (Exchange SE...

Today you will see a new product category in WSUS for Windows Live™. Windows Live™ online services include web-based products for consumers, such as Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Toolbar. Updates will be offered for both beta and final products...

Good morning! Now that you are all back from TechEd, I wanted to address an issue that a couple of folks contacted us about regarding some client/server synchronization issues they were experiencing in their WSUS environment. Issue: Computers...

WSUS Admins, Today you will see a new product category and update classification in your WSUS Synchronization Options dialogs. Windows Defender, formerly Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta), will as of today’s synchronization, show up as a new...

Hi folks: Just wanted to get you up to speed on some update information were trying to make more available to WSUS admins as we release content! If you look on your web-based WSUS Admin UI home page you'll see the link: Get the latest WSUS news...

This paper describes an implementation using WSUS in combination with ISA 2004, to extend an Intranet-based patch management solution to a growing number of mobile, or remote clients. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab72eb03-09cf...

The WSUS Product Team is proud to announce that WSUS 3.0 SP2 is now available! Get it today! We recommend installing SP2 on all existing and new installations of WSUS. WSUS 3.0 SP2 supports the latest operating systems including Windows Server®...

Hi all, Anyone who added "Drivers" to their WSUS synchronization options may have noticed a large number of driver updates showing up in their WSUS server recently, and the majority of them have the same title. We wanted to let you know what's going...

Starting today, the WSUS administrator will notice that the IMF Filters now supersede each other instead of direct expiration of every update. A review of the process over the last couple of months allowed us to identify that the expiration release model...

Dear WSUS users, I am very excited to announce the release of WSUS 3.0 SP1, now live and ready for download! This is a significant release that represents a huge milestone for all involved and we thank you greatly for your feedback and support throughout...

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...

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...

A couple of important updates were released to Microsoft Update and WSUS, along with this short note regarding what those updates do (and don't) apply to. (Thanks to Thao Doan from the Visual Studio team for the info!) -Don ------------- ...

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...