Here’s a cool tip that was sent to me by Joao Madureira, a Support Escalation Engineer in our WSUS group.

Exchange 2003 SP2. A/P Cluster. I notice every now an then mails pile up in the queue. And when I go and restart the SMTP Virtual Server Instace from my Cluster Console they …

Here is a blog post by Sandy Berkouwer where he does some analysis of how many fewer patches Server Core takes: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2008/10/22/analyzing-the-server-core-updates-estimate.aspx His conclusion – 23% fewer patches than …

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx FYI – Could be a bad one.
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MS08-067 Security Patch issued

Hi all Some time back our Win 2003 server started to lock up , all sessions froze CTRL-ALT-END has no function , when trying to log on we get the desktop color and get …

Hi.I do run Windows Server 2003R2 and exchange server 2003 on my server.Every time i try to make a Windows update it come with the message that service is disable. I did check my servives …

FYI. The b.root-servers.net and l.root-server.net IP addresses are defunct — there’s no Root Hints WIndows Update to address these changes yet. Check the mast list and update. http://www.root-servers.org/

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I am trying to install the Update Agent on one of our servers but it keeps giving me an error”the system cannot find the file windowsupdateagent30-x86.exe” Has anyone else run into this problem? I was …

I was wondering why some Microsoft Security Hotfix are not listed in Add/Remove programs.

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Let’s say for some reason I want certain computers (perhaps those not regularly connected to the network) to get updates from the WSUS server at a time of my choice (and manually). Initiation of …

Having trouble figuring out how to take a good XP image that has been captuered to my WDS server, and updating it with the latest patches, and a few programs/permissions. Currently I have to …

I have never heard of Microsoft sending a hotfix ever. Since when did they start doing such?
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