Another Windows Server Update Services glitch hits — on the eve of Patch
Tuesday
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| It’s never a good thing when Microsoft’s Windows Server Update Services
| (WSUS) enterprise-patch mechanism malfunctions. It’s even worse when WSUS
| breaks down right before the company plans to start pushing out its regularly
| scheduled Patch Tuesday fixes.
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| That’s what has happened this week.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=943
Maybe the update servers had a false negative WGA problem because the WGA
servers had a false positive which disabled themselves after they had
collapsed. Welcome to the world of Microsoft Reliability(R).
Related:
I've had it up to HERE with the likes of Microsoft
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| When WGA was first implemented, certain free downloads from MS
| were unavailable unless you installed something to "verify" you
| didn't "pirate" your OS. Then comes the WGA "tool" that phones home
| several times a day/week/month "verifying" your installation, and
| now most interesting downloads from MS are blocked unless you
| validate your OS. Add to this the certainty that Vista is going
| to up the ante on WGA and MS found one less customer.
|
| Speaking of Vista, I tried out RC1 and found it slow, ill-conceived
| and just plain ugly. You cannot change basic interface elements like
| menus without warning. Things are moved all over the place, never got
| a sense of uniformity, etc, etc. Bottom line - I hated it. Add this
| to the unrest in my stomach over WGA and I found myself at the
| crossroads.
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http://www.applexnet.com/node/549
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