It;s by no means a fantastic thing when Microsoft;s Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) enterprise-patch mechanism malfunctions. It;s even even worse when WSUS breaks down proper just before the enterprise ideas to begin pushing out its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday fixes.That;s what has occurred this week. Inside a November 13 post towards the WSUS Group blog,
Office 2007 Enterprise, Microsoft officials acknowledged:“We have been hearing reports from some customers who use WSUS that they have been having trouble accessing their administration consoles. We have confirmed the cause of this issue and fixed it on our servers,
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, which will automatically fix the issue for most customers on their next synchronization cycle.”Senior Program Manager for WSUS Bobbie Harder,
Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Business, in that same post provides “steps customers can take to get WSUS working again even sooner.”As WindowsConnected.com notes, users were complaining about the latest WSUS problem,
Microsoft Office Standard, via newsgroups, over the weekend.Fortunately for Microsoft and its customers, November 13 is slated to be a relatively light Patch Tuesday, with two new bulletins slated for release,
Buy Windows 7, Microsoft also is pushing out three new Windows Vista updates via Windows Update this week, as well.WSUS has had a less-than-stellar track record over the past couple of months. In late October, WSUS erroneously pushed to users a Windows Desktop Search update as the result of a rules change Microsoft made in the WSUS back-end.