• The upcoming MVP Summitt

    This year's MVP Global Summitt is going to be awesome for the Software Distribution team and our MVP's! The team, which consists of the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites, publishing infrastructure, the WSUS (server & client), BITS and the...
  • Client DCOM access issue - preventing installation

    Some new information in on client troubleshooting - A Customer has reported one or more clients failing to install updates with an error 0x80070005. Investigation shows this issue to be related to a DCOM access problem. The root cause is is related to...
  • Using a SQL cluster as the WSUS backend

    We've had some customer requests for backend SQL cluster support in the next version of WSUS. Currently, this is not an officially supported configuration for WSUS, but we have had a customer or 2 successfully set-up this configuration. While satisfaction...
  • New Information on Office Administrative Install Points and WSUS update support

    There has been some confusion on why WSUS does not detect for and update needed Office Updates on some clients. KBs have recently been revised describing WSUS update support for RTM and pre-patched Admin Installation Points on both Office XP and Office...