October 2008 - Posts
Over on the WSUS product team blog Cecilia announced a couple new additions: ----- Windows Live OneCare 3.0 In the next few weeks, Microsoft Update is adding a new product family to your WSUS server – Windows Live OneCare V3.0. These
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Here's a good WSUS tip from Joe Tindale , one of the top Senior Support Escalation Engineer in our WSUS support group. If you're seeing 0x80244015 and 0x8024400D errors and are using a load balancer with your WSUS servers then this may be your issue:
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Yesterday the MSRC blog had a post about the Q&A session for the out-of-band MS08-067 security update. I posted the intro below but you can read their entire post here : ======== On Thursday, October 23, 2008, Microsoft released an Out-Of-Band Security
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We had three updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - one on Microsoft Update and two on WSUS. Links and titles are below: ======== Microsoft Software Update Services 894199 - Description of Software Update Services and Windows Server Update
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Remember when I said we posted an advance notification of an out-of-band security bulletin that was going to be released today ( hint )? Well sure enough, it's now released. Over on the MSRC blog they have all the gory details but I'm only
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Just a quick FYI that we posted an advance notification of an out-of-band security bulletin that is intending for release today (October 23, 2008). This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the revised October bulletin summary on October
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First it was the Silverlight update rollup , next it's the Forefront 'Stirling' beta . Over on the WSUS product team blog they state: "In the next couple of days, we are adding a new product family to your WSUS server -Forefront Code named
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Over on the MSRC blog they posted last months Q&A online so you can catch up on what they discussed in case you missed. I posted the intro below and you can read the entire article here . Also, be sure to register now for the November
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Just an FYI that over on the WSUS product team blog there's a post about the release of the latest Silverlight update rollup. Cecilia Cole, WSUS Program Manager, says: "...the latest Silverlight update rollup was released today. So if you have
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We had two updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - one on Windows Update and one on WSUS. Links and titles are below: ======== Windows Update 900936 - Error code 0x8024402C when you try to install updates on Windows Update or Microsoft Update
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Hello, Joe Tindale here from the WSUS team to give you some tips on those timeout errors you may see when trying to view or approve updates. This problem is prevalent on WSUS2 but it can happen on WSUS3 as well. It usually happens when a large number
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Just a quick FYI on a recent Knowledge Base article we released describing the supported configurations for using the same WSUS instance to support both FCS v1 and ConfigMgr 2007. I'll spare you all the gory details other than to point out the basic
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You're probably already well aware of Microsoft's CodePlex open source project hosting website but in case you're not, it's home to a ton of great tools and scripts including a virtual salad of awesome tools for managing and troubleshooting WSUS.
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If you're in charge of administering WSUS then chances are you're pretty concerned with making sure you're aware of any new Knowledge Base articles as quickly as possible. That's why you subscribe to this blog and others like it. Being aware of
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Here's an interesting one that was recently written up by David Kirchmer, one of our Senior Support Engineers from Charlotte, North Carolina. If you're getting errors such as "The WSUS administration console was unable to connect to the WSUS
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Over on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog they posted the updates included in the October release that came out today so if you're wanting to stay on top of what's new then you you'll want to check out their post here . Other topics discussed
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There's a new webcast planned that I thought you might be interested in. It basically covers what's new in Vista SP1, what you need to know before deploying it, and how to deploy it using WSUS. If rolling our Vista SP1 via WSUS is in your
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We had four updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - two on Windows Update, one on WSUS and one on Microsoft Update. Links and titles are below: ======== Windows Update 900936 - Error code 0x8024402C when you try to install updates on Windows
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In case you missed it, the WSUS product recently announced that in a few days you will see a new product family in your WSUS server – BizTalk Server. The BizTalk Server product family will include updates for Host Integration Server 2000,
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Over on the WSUS product team blog they announced that later this month you will see the product family called "Office Communications Server" updated to “Office Communications Server & Office Communicator”. This category will contain updates to components
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We had one updated and eight new Knowledge Base articles for the week - five on Windows Update and four Microsoft Update. Links and titles are below: ======== Windows Update 958040 - Error message when you try to install updates from the Windows
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We had nine new and one updated Knowledge Base article for the week - links and titles are below: ======== Microsoft Software Update Svcs 894199 - Description of Software Update Services and Windows Server Update Services changes in content for 2008 Published
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