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And now we know why the Win10 version 1809 updates got blocked
Last night, Microsoft officially announced the reason why its Win10 version 1809 cumulative updates were having problems. Remember the Update Servers having hiccups? Yeah, that’s the bug.
Here’s the official reason:
February 4, 2019 9:45 PM PST
“The Windows Update service was impacted by a data corruption issue in an external DNS service provider global outage on January 29, 2019. The issue was resolved on the same day and Windows Update is now operating normally, but a few customers have continued to report issues connecting to the Windows Update service. We expect these issues will go away as downstream DNS servers are updated with the corrected Windows Update DNS entries.”
It only took ’em a week.
There’s a reason why the patching team has a PR group. Just wish they’d do more, you know, PR.
UPDATE: Interesting. Just looking at it, this notice only appears for Win10 version 1809 updates (presumably cumulative updates). But I’m about 99% sure the hiccups were being experienced with all Windows versions. Can anyone confirm?
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