• WSUS Extension Pack is now available from EminentWare

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by WSUS Team}

    EminentWare has released a WSUS Extension Pack that takes advantage of native WSUS and Windows capabilities to enable extended update management and reporting. EminentWare’s Extension Pack contains features many of you have requested over the past year including:

     

    ·         Extended Inventory Reporting including approved updates only

    ·         Discovery and identification of rogue machines on the network

    ·         Force real-time download and install of updates from the Update Server

    ·         Apply Windows Update Local Policy Settings to one or more machines

    ·         Advanced Shutdown, Reboot and Wake-on-Lan capabilities

    ·         Force refresh of Group Policy on machines

    ·         Schedulable automated WSUS cleanup

    ·         Repair / forced re-install of the Windows Update Agent

    ·         Locally published Updates - Enable 3rd party updates

    ·         Flexible computer grouping and management

    ·         Granular Approval Delegation of the Update management process

    ·         View / Report on client and server configurations, Update history & status

    ·         Create custom reports via easy to use report builder

     

    A free fully functional 30 day trial is available for download on EminentWare’s website http://www.eminentware.com. EminentWare’s product can also be viewed at the Microsoft Management Summit April 28 – May 2nd in Las Vegas.

     

  • Auto Approval rules when EULA acceptance is required

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by WSUS Team}

    WSUS Admins;

     

    We’ve seen a little bit of confusion around the specific WSUS behavior with the OGA update.  As most of you know the package is expired, so it’s no longer available to your WSUS servers. Also, not to bore the experts who know this, auto-approval rules don’t apply to updates that require explicit EULA acceptance, which this one does.  Only manual approval and EULA acceptance will have made this update available to your clients, even if you had auto-approval rules applied.

     

    The WSUS team

  • Office Geniune Advantage (OGA) notification update release (KB949810)

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by WSUS Team}

     

    WSUS Admins:

     

    On April 15th the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) notifications update (KB949810) was inadvertently published to WSUS servers for approximately twenty-four hours. This update was intended for Microsoft Office users in the pilot countries of Italy, Spain, Turkey and Chile, but because of WSUS publication, it became available to WSUS managed clients inside and outside of these intended countries.  This update has since been removed from WSUS.  For servers which synchronized the OGA update package, the package required a EULA acceptance before it could be made available to WSUS managed clients, via either manual approval, or auto-approval rules.   OGA notifications are designed to alert customers who are using non-genuine software, and are thus more vulnerable to activation exploits and the risks of counterfeit. As such, this update was marked critical for WSUS.

     

     

    We are available to offer full assistance if you have problems or questions related to this issue, via your regular support channels.  Customers who want to learn more about OGA notifications can reference the online KB Article.  Customers who require support should submit  a Technical Support Request for Microsoft Genuine Advantage Issues.  

  • Hyper-V RC available on Windows Update

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by WSUS Team}

    Folks,

    Today, April 8, the Windows Update team is making the Hyper-V Release Candidate package available as an "Optional Update" via Windows Update for all Windows Server 2008 SKUs. It will also be published as an "Optional Update" to WSUS. For more detailed instructions, please refer to How to Install Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Release Candidate.

    For more information about the availability of new and changed updates available for WSUS, please visit our TechNet site under  "WSUS Updates".

    Thank you.

    Cecilia Cole | WSUS Program Manager