There are 21 replies, with the last one on 03/17/2010 at 10:52:00 AM by timberk Quote: +1 for Forefront Client Security. We use it in a small environment without all the centralized management/reporting stuff. Usually do a manual install, then WSUS or Microsoft Update to get definition updates to the clients.

The EMEA Core Team posted a great tip on a WSUS related error they’ve been seeing lately: When running updates from WSUS 3.0 SP1 we are seeing the following error messages in the Windows Update Agent Log File C:WindowsWindowsUpdate.log.

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If the windows clients used to surf the web and, for some of you, update your sites, can not perform security updates, then your clients can easily be infected by future malware attacks. The problem can, however, be fixed by simply …

So a couple of folks have been reporting in the listserves that their clients have been getting a message indicating that a server upgrade will take place and to install the SSL update. Given that this is the patch Tuesday week, it would probably be a good idea to remind your client base that you don’t send them links to install like this. Remind them of what your emails look like.

I don’t know whether MS Security Essentials is a replacement for Live OneCare but I wouldn’t worry about it. I was on the beta for Security Essentials and frankly, I won’t recommend it to my clients. It may be a fine antivirus but I don’t like its updating mechanism since it doesn’t follow industry-standard procedure but rather uses Windows Update instead

Thanks for the update ken. I had forgotten the referral sort order so had to dig up an email I sent to a colleague on the very thing. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc202248(PROT.10).aspx explains the order in which referrals are sorted and returned

Seit gestern ist das Service Pack 2 für den WSUS 3.0 verfügbar. Die wesentlichen Neuerungen sind: Integration von Windows Server 2008 R2 Unterstützung der BranchCache-Funktion unter Windows Server 2008 R2 Unterstützung von Windows 7 Clients Neuer Windows Update-Agent Verbesserungen bei IPv6 Verbesserungen bei den Berichten Verbesserung bei automatischen Genehmigungen Zu beachten ist, dass für die Administrationsoberfläche “Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008” benötigt wird. Weitere Informationen: Download und Systemvoraussetzungen/Hinweise Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 Viele Grüße Dieter — Dieter Rauscher MVP Forefront

Hi: All my clients show as reporting except one: a laptop. It’s last report date was about a month ago. The client diag tool run on that client shows: WSUS Client Diagnostics Tool Checking Machine State Checking for admin rights to run tool .

Because of the wide affect of this, the gpo is set to disable windows updates for all of our production sites until 7.4 is available to be put on the WSUS server so the clients can self update since the problem still appears with 7.1 and there is no good way to deploy the 7.2 version out to the production

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 07/28/2009 at 6:56:52 PM by Mark Minasi Quote: quote: Originally posted by timberk As a rule of thumb, wouldn’t it be the span of time from one Patch Tuesday to the next? Depending on whether they do an out of band release or not. ~tb Tim, that’s supposed to be one of the big benefits of clusters and failover

The latest “Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows” ( KB960715 ) is causing problems for some third party applications that are dependent on the disabled controls. One application that has problems, “ Office Tools Professional ”, is advising its users to not only uninstall the Killbit patch (thereby restoring the broken functionality), but also to “turn off automatic updates”.  Please do not turn off automatic updates.  Simply uninstall the problem patch