June 2008 - Posts
There is a small misunderstanding in BITS capabilities. When we say "bandwidth-throttling technology uses only idle bandwidth" and thus "downloads do not interfere with or slow other network activity, such as Internet browsing" the
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Over on the WSUS Product Team blog Cecilia Cole just posted about how the WinVerifyTrust update will now be mandatory: ======== A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Windows Vista Service Pack 1’s availability to WSUS. In that post, we mentioned
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Actually it looks like the issue Cecilia posted on is different. Sorry about the confusion. You'll probably want to check it out anyway if you're seeing any client/server synchronization issues in your WSUS environment: ======= Just a quick heads up that
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The hotfix to correct this problem has been publicly released and is now available online. Microsoft Security Advisory (954474): System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Blocked from Deploying Security Updates: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/954474.mspx
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We recently posted some new information regarding the inability to deploy updates to SMS 2003 clients. The original post is here and the update is here . Just in case the links above don't work for you the same links are below: ----====----
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Here's an interesting problem Mike Johnson, one of our top Support Escalation Engineers in the WSUS group found. If you upgrade to WSUS 3.0 SP1 and notice a problem with your clients then this may be what you're running into: ======== Problem: After
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If you're having sync problems or seeing an update dated 3008 with Tuesdays catalog then this one's for you: ======== The June 10, 2008 release of the WSUS Offline Scan Catalog (wsusscn2.cb) fails to synchronize on a ConfigMgr 2007 or ConfigMgr 2007 SP1
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After starting this blog I realized that we have quite a few people who are new to WSUS and they all seemed eager for docs and labs and whatnot to help them get started. In an effort to help in that regard I put together a couple links that should
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Just an FYI in case you missed Cecilia's announcement over on the WSUS Product Team Blog : Vista SP1 for WSUS is coming soon but if you are running WSUS on a Windows 2003 Server there's an update you'll need to install first. I pasted a little
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Here's an interesting issue that Mike Johnson, one of our WSUS Support Escalation Engineers, came across the other day. If you find that your clients are failing to download content files with an EXE extension you might be running into the same issue.
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This isn't something specific to Windows Server Update Services but it's pretty cool nonetheless. It was a long time coming but both MSDN and TechNet got a much needed make-over last week so if you haven't stopped by lately you'll want to check them out
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I was going over some of the issues we've been getting in the WSUS support group and came across one that seemed pretty interesting. I didn't see it documented anywhere so I thought I'd write it up here in case any of you happen to run across it. The
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OK, so this isn't something WSUS specific but it's pretty cool so I thought you'd be interested in hearing about it if you haven't already. If you've ever had to troubleshoot an application problem then you know how valuable tools such as Process
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