August 2008 - Posts
Wait, didn't I just post something about new product categories? I yea, I did . Well there's one more to keep an eye out for as well. In addition to the previous two already mentioned, there will be a new product category added to your
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The good folks over in the WSUS product group recently posted on their blog about two new product categories that are showing up in the WSUS Synchronization Options dialogs. An intro and a link to the full post is below: ======== Hello folks! Today
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The question about how Service Packs are reported is one that seems to come up all the time, and understandably so because it can be very confusing if you don't understand what's really going on. Fortunately our very own Joe Tindale wrote up a great explanation
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Here's an interesting issue written up by Scott Ellison, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in our Charlotte, NC office. This issue is caused by a missing EULA, and nobody likes a missing EULA: ======== Issue: When attempting to deploy a software update
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Back by popular demand are the weekly new Knowledge Base article lists and instead of just listing the new articles I'm listing any that have been updated as well. Note that the list is not WSUS specific but includes anything relating to Windows
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Over on the Microsoft Update Product Team Blog they just announced that a new product category for Windows 7 Client was published to Windows Update and was made available to WSUS. They indicate that another one for Windows 7 Server should be appearing
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Do you get the occasional OutOfMemoryException error when running reports in WSUS? Are you looking to customize the reporting capabilities. How about improving the overall performance of the reports? If you answered yes to any of these
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If you're running Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in a virtualized environment or if you're planning on doing so in the future, you'll want to be aware of this, and since this involves changes to our support policy I wanted to share it with all
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Hello, my name is Joe Tindale and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the WSUS team. As some of you may know we recently released some driver updates that resulted in an extra ~12,000 updates flowing to your WSUS servers. At the root of this
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Here's a great tip from Rob Coffey, a real life WSUS support engineer from North Carolina. We've seen reports of this occurring if you upgrade to WSUS Service Pack 1 and then remove the SP although I haven't been able to confirm this myself. If you have
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Have you ever wanted to automate the process of searching, downloading and installing a specific update? How about scanning for security updates without connecting to Windows Update or to a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server? Well
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Here's a cool tip on an issue that seems to get people from time to time. This one comes from Joao Madureira, a real life WSUS support engineer from Texas: ======== Issue: When checking the console for approved updates, some updates may appear as
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OK, I know this has nothing to do with WSUS but with the Olympics starting tomorrow I thought some of you might be interested in this. I love watching the Olympics and the fact that NBC's site is running some really cool Microsoft tech is icing
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Do you ever have trouble finding that exact piece of information you're looking for on Microsoft.com? Did you know there are over 50 million pages on our site? I didn't either to be honest, but even the best of us can be overwhelmed with the
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Ed has asked if a few of us could help out with his survey by posting a link to it here. I'm happy to oblige: Greetings Blog Readers, My name is Ed Jolly, and I am a director in the Commercial Technical Support (CTS) organization at Microsoft. I am here
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