• WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2 appears to be badly broken

    Posted on May 4, 2016 at 07:43 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Left hand, meet right hand.

    Thanks to Cliff Hogan, who’s awake while we all sleep.

    InfoWorld Woody on Windows

    UPDATE: Following on a tip from Rod Trent, over at WindowsITPro, Microsoft has reported on the issue and marked it closed:

    [Resolved] Service Restored
     
    (Started on 5/3/2016 8:53:00 PM UTC)
     
    5/4/2016 8:19:08 AM (UTC)
     
    Final Status: Engineers identified that the Intune service was unable to synchronize with recently deployed Microsoft updates. Engineers deployed a fix to the affected updates, which resolved the issue. User Impact: There was no end-user impact; impact was limited to administrators only. Affected administrators may have been not receiving recently published updates through Microsoft Update or Windows Update. Scope of Impact: Many customers appeared to be impacted by this event. For those customers affected, this issue potentially affected any administrator attempting to access or use the affected feature. No customer reports of the issue were identified during this event. Incident Start Time: Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 9:53 PM UTC Incident End Time: Wednesday, May 4, 2016, at 7:45 AM UTC Preliminary Root Cause: An issue has occurred that prevented update synchronization. Please consider this service notification the final update on the event.
    I count that as a 10-hour WSUS disruption.
    It’d be interesting to know if the source of the problem was ESD encryption.
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