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SUSFP detects that MS08-062 patches are needed even though IIS is not installed on target machine

Here's another issue you may want to be aware of if you're still using the old SUSFP scan engine to detect updates. This one is from Clifton Hughes in our Las Colinas, Texas office: ======== Issue: In SMS 2003, if you are using SUSFP you...

Published 12-16-2008 9:37 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Security Update, SUSFP

New Microsoft Security Advisory: 961051 - Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Just an FYI that we just released a new advisory for an IE related issue. The intro and a link are below: ======== Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Our investigation so far...

Published 12-11-2008 8:50 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Advisory, Security Update

Advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on December 9, 2008

Just a quick FYI on the security bulletins scheduled to release next week: ======== Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 4, 2008 Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 9, 2008 This is an advance notification of...

Published 12-05-2008 9:54 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: Webcast, WSUS3, Update

WSUS client updates fail with error 80072F8F after configuring a self-signed certificate in IIS

Here's a cool tip that was sent to me by Joao Madureira, a Support Escalation Engineer in our WSUS group. If you want to use a self-signed cert in IIS7 for your WSUS clients then you'll want to take a look at this one: ======== Issue: After...

Published 12-03-2008 9:37 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Update, Troubleshoot, SSL, Certificate

WUAHandler.log - Failed to Add Update Source for WUAgent - Error = 0x80040692

Here's a great tip on an issue you may run into if your using WSUS and ConfigMgr 2007 for updates and defining settings via a Group Policy. This one comes from Anjana Kaku Tyagi, a Support Engineer in our Manageability group: ======== Issue...

Published 12-02-2008 16:49 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Update, Troubleshoot

New and updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-16 through 11-22

Sorry for the delay in posting the new KB's but I took a couple days for Thanksgiving and I'm just now getting caught back up. For the week of 11-16 through 11-22 we had one updated Knowledge Base article and it's our old familiar KB...

Published 12-02-2008 8:56 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Update, KB Article

Explaining the detection logic of MS08-052

Mike Johnson , a Senior Support Escalation Engineer for WSUS, recently sent me some interesting info on the detection logic in MS08-052 and why it may be a little confusing. If you noticed that MS08-052 superseded MS08-040 , but that MS08-052 is...

Published 11-20-2008 8:03 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Update

More on throttling WSUS downloads

I know I've touched on this before thanks to WSUS Senior Support Engineer Ellis George , but throttling downloads continues to be a popular discussion topic so I thought I'd add to it a little using some tips from Joe Tindale , also a Senior Support...

Published 11-19-2008 11:52 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Update, BITS, Throttling

Updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-9 through 11-15

We had three updated Knowledge Base articles for the week. One is the old familiar 894199 article but the other two are fairly new additions to the list. Links and titles are below: ======== Microsoft Software Update Svcs 894199 - Description of Software...

Published 11-17-2008 9:27 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, KB Article

November 2008 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions and Answers

Over on the MSRC blog they posted on the availability of this months webcast covering the questions regarding November's security bulletins. If you didn't have the chance to attend then check out the webcast below to see what you missed...

Published 11-17-2008 8:20 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: Microsoft Update, Webcast, WSUS3, Update

WSUS clients install updates properly but don't send any status reports back to the server

Here's a cool tip and a cool tool that was sent to me by Joe Tindale , one of the top Support Escalation Engineers in our WSUS group. If you find that your WSUS clients are not sending status updates back to the server then this is something you'll...

Published 11-12-2008 12:05 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Update, Troubleshoot

November 2008 Bulletin Release

Over on the MSRC blog they have a post about the two bulletins included in the November 2008 bulleting release that came out today: ========= • MS08-068 : Vulnerability in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957097). This has a severity rating...

Published 11-11-2008 17:14 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Update

Updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-2 through 11-8

We had two updated Knowledge Base articles for the week. One is the old familiar 894199 article but the other is a new addition to the list. Links and titles are below: ======== Windows Update 902093 - How to read the Windowsupdate.log file...

Published 11-11-2008 9:16 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, KB Article

How to manually remove all of WSUS

Hey, let's face it, bad luck can strike the best of us, so if you find yourself in a position where your WSUS box is corrupt beyond repair, the regular uninstall isn't working and you have no choice but to do a complete removal and reinstallation...

Published 11-05-2008 10:31 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS3, Troubleshoot, Tool

Updated Knowledge Base articles for 10-26 through 11-1

We had three updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - two on Microsoft Update and one on WSUS. Links and titles are below: ======== Microsoft Update 949104 - How to obtain the latest version of the Windows Update Agent to help manage updates...

Published 11-04-2008 9:29 by The WSUS Support Team Blog

Filed under: Microsoft Update, WSUS3, KB Article, Troubleshoot

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