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Why Patch Tuesday Turns Into Patch Thursday or Friday or Monday
I used to hate the second Tuesday of every month. I honestly liked it better when patches were released as they were ready. What happens with the scheduled updates is that everyone knows that it is coming and that means that everyone expects their SMS Engineers to have the patches deployed that night, no matter how late, no matter how many people, no matter what! And on Wednesday morning, usually around...
Error message in the WUSSyncXML.log file when the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates tries to synchronize and to download software updates: Error retrieving object PackageID
Error message in the WUSSyncXML.log file when the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates tries to synchronize and to download software updates: "Error retrieving object PackageID" View products that this article applies to. Article ID:936906 Last Review:May 14, 2007 Revision:1.0 On This Page SYMPTOMS CAUSE RESOLUTION Method 1 Method 2 SYMPTOMS The Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU...
Microsoft Releases Fix For Automatic Updates
While the article below highlights complaints posted to the WSUS product team blog if you read in the newsgroups it seems that this has fixed a number of peoples problems. They essentially lowered the priority that the process runs under so while the CPU will still show 100% used you can still work as it will hand back CPU cycles as other processes or threads request them. There is a trade off here...
Windows Update Agent v2 Still Causing Problems
This should sound familiar to a number of people. WSUS Celerons and SVChost "BK" posts in what we've been suspecting all along..that 927891 isn't working/doesn't always work. Oh in my network where I don't have Celery.... I mean Celerons .... so the applications of 927891 does help a lot, but if you have underpowered machines, celerons you are STILL getting nailed.... KB927891 helps resolve the svchost...
ITMU v2 No Longer Works
Late last year a flood of calls came into Microsoft Premier Support Services (PSS) regarding the SMS patch scan causing computers to lock up or freeze for a long period of time while the patches were installed. This problem got immediate attention by the product teams and a new version of ITMU was released to help resolve the issues being reported. The issues actually lie in the WUA agent that is installed...
New Exchange Patch Could Cure Your Crackberry Addiction!
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912918 SYMPTOMS When you try to send an e-mail message in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, you cannot send the e-mail message. Additionally, you may receive one of the following error messages or one of the following Non Delivery Reports (NDRs): This issue is known to affect the following third-party products: Research In Motion (RIM...
