• Windows Server Update Services hosed again

    Posted on November 12, 2007 at 21:51 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    For the second time in a month, Microsoft completely hosed Windows Server Update Services.

    If you’re attached to a corporate network, or you run Windows Small Business Server, you’re in for some interesting times – or at least your Network Admin should be ready to yank out his/her few remaining strands of hair. Gregg Keizer at Computerworld writes:

    If the problem in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is not fixed before tomorrow, administrators will not be able to download and deploy the vulnerability patches and other nonsecurity updates Microsoft Corp. has planned for tomorrow, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at security tools vendor nCircle Inc. “It appears that anybody who synced WSUS [with Microsoft’s Windows Update servers] today or yesterday is essentially DOA,” he said. The default WSUS setting is to sync daily.

    So have pity on your Admin. The patches coming on Black Tuesday aren’t likely to rate as earth-shattering. For home users or folks with peer-to-peer “Workgroup” networks they’ll probably rate a real yawners. But if you’re running a Windows Server server, you not only have to struggle with bad patches, you have to struggle with bad patching software.

    Remember that fact the next time someone tells you that Microsoft is taking over the server software market.

    Windows Patches/Security
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