WSUS Product Team Blog
Information on recent and upcoming changes to WSUS, straight from the team making them
Vista SP1 available on WSUS
Hey all, You may have noticed that yesterday we made Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available on WSUS...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 07/16/2008
A fix for Client/Server Synchronization Issues
Hi all, We have released a fix for the synchronization issues that Cecilia described in...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 07/10/2008
A new version of WUA is rolling out on Windows Update
Hi all, We wanted to let you know that a new version of the Windows Update Agent is being released...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 07/07/2008
Finding machines not compliant with a specific security bulletin
I read Marc’s post about Compliance Reporting and it was similar to a problem I deal with in my job....
Author: WSUS Team Date: 07/07/2008
Baseline compliance report, using public WSUS views
Customers at TechEd asked how to generate a compliance report that shows computers that are out of...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 06/20/2008
WinVerifyTrust update will be mandatory for WSUS
Good morning folks, A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Windows Vista Service Pack 1’s...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 06/19/2008
Client/Server Synchronization issues
Good morning! Now that you are all back from TechEd, I wanted to address an issue that a couple of...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 06/18/2008
Windows Vista SP1 available to WSUS
Hi everyone, Quick update on Windows Vista SP1’s availability to WSUS. As I mentioned previously, we...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 06/05/2008
New Office Sustained Engineering blog
Hi all, If you use Microsoft Office, a great new resource has recently come online to help you...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/20/2008
Windows XP Service Pack 3 published to WSUS
Hi everyone, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) was made available to Windows Server Update Services...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/06/2008
WSUS Extension Pack is now available from EminentWare
EminentWare has released a WSUS Extension Pack that takes advantage of native WSUS and Windows...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 04/25/2008
Auto Approval rules when EULA acceptance is required
WSUS Admins; We’ve seen a little bit of confusion around the specific WSUS behavior with the OGA...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 04/21/2008
Hyper-V RC available on Windows Update
Folks, Today, April 8, the Windows Update team is making the Hyper-V Release Candidate package...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 04/08/2008
More news regarding WSUS 3.0 SP1 on Windows Update
Following up on last week’s entry, WSUS 3.0 SP1 will be available today, Tuesday, March 25 to WSUS,...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 03/24/2008
Deploying Vista SP1 into a WSUS 3.0 Server
Good morning folks! I wanted to bring to your attention the fact that on 03/18 , Windows Vista SP1...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 03/23/2008
WSUS 3.0 SP1 on Windows Update coming soon!
WSUS 3.0 SP1 will be available on Windows Update within the next few weeks. The package behavior is:...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 03/19/2008
Vista SP1 for WSUS 3.0 servers is coming
Good afternoon folks! I just wanted to let you know that we are planning on providing some guidance...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 03/19/2008
Silverlight is now available to Windows Vista systems
Hello folks! I wanted to refresh your memory regarding a post we published a month ago about a new...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 02/20/2008
WSUS 3.0 SP1 is now RTM!!!
Dear WSUS users, I am very excited to announce the release of WSUS 3.0 SP1, now live and ready for...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 02/07/2008
Internet Explorer 7 to be distributed via WSUS February 12, 2008
Folks, I wanted to bring to your attention that on February 12, Microsoft will release the IE7...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 01/23/2008
New product family, Silverlight coming Tuesday 1/22/08
WSUS Admins, happy Monday! I wanted to remind you that a new Microsoft product family called...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 01/21/2008
Managing changes from a WSUS Server
There are multiple ways updates can be deployed through WSUS to client machines (“client machines”...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 01/08/2008
A Note regarding KB935509
WSUS Admins, Happy New Year!! I wanted to provide some guidance on the prerequisite update...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 01/07/2008
New Product Family - Expression appearing in WSUS
Good morning folks, I just wanted to let you know that early next year, we are adding a new product...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 12/17/2007
Windows Vista reliability & performance update preview release available today
Hello folks, The Microsoft Update product team just announced the availability of the Windows Vista...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 12/14/2007
Unexpected UI errors in WSUS
Hi Folks, We have been hearing reports from some customers who use WSUS that they have been having...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 11/12/2007
WDS update revision follow - up
Hi Folks - I wanted to get back to you with more information and guidance around the Windows Desktop...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 10/25/2007
WDS revision update, expanded applicability rules, auto-approve revisions
Some customers have reported that update package for KB917013 was being deployed to WSUS clients...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 10/24/2007
ATI Radeon Graphic Card updates... 3892...
A few people on the microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services newsgroup mentioned concern over...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 09/07/2007
Content Information Sources
Hi Folks - Want to make sure you all know that if you want to stay up on important information re:...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 08/17/2007
WSUS 3 Developer's Blog - automated reporting tips and tricks - trending data for approved updates
In my last entry on new powershell API samples, I mentioned providing some tips and tricks for...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 07/16/2007
WSUS 3 Developer's Blog - API samples... (part 2) 3 more scripts coming
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/sus/server/default.mspx?mfr=true Sorry it's a...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 07/10/2007
The Microsoft Update Catalog Beta also has WSUS 3.0 releases (and 927891)
WSUS 3.0 is also available via the Beta Microsoft Update Catalog! The new beta MU Catalog provides...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/22/2007
Latest MSI.dll fix (927891) also available to WU/WSUS today
For those of you who may have not "synched" yet today, I'm also pleased to let you know the latest...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/22/2007
Updates for WSUS available today
Hi Folks- Just wanted to let you know - today is the day two updates will be available to you to...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/22/2007
New detection logic for Office 2007 updates released May 8th
There has been a re-release of the Office 2007 security and non –security updates released May 8th....
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/18/2007
Svchost /MSI issue follow up:
Hi Folks – Just want to make sure you know we are actively following up on the comments posted on...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/14/2007
New Product Category CAPICOM under the "SDK Components" product family
CAPICOM is an ActiveX control, scriptable interface, and COM object redistributed by Microsoft, 3rd...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/08/2007
Where to check out the WSUS 3.0 community
Please check out the WSUS 3.0 community for great peer, MVP, and subject matter expert support and,...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 05/01/2007
WSUS 3.0 Released Monday, April 30th 2007
We are thrilled to announce that WSUS 3.0 has released today April 30th and is avaialble now on the...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 04/30/2007
WSUS 3 Developer's Blog: ready, set, go!
Have you checked out our homepage lately? Who says you can't get something for nothing?...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 04/30/2007
WSUS 3 Developer's Blog - API samples...
Things are starting to get a little quieter here as we finish out the final tasks for this release....
Author: WSUS Team Date: 04/27/2007
WSUS 3 RC public beta program winding down soon
Hi Folks - Just a post to our many RC beta partners dilligently testing WSUS v3 RC in our public...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 04/05/2007
New alpha Catalog site available with WSUS 3.0 RC
Want another cool reason to check out the WSUS 3.0 Release Candidate now in public beta, (available...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 03/01/2007
Windows Defender Update clarification on KB932135
Hi Folks – Ive heard some confusion on the handling of the update approval for MS07-010 / KB932135...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 02/22/2007
EXCHANGE: Update for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (KB931978) has been released
Exchange Admins ~ We have publiched to MU the DST change for Exchange 2003 SP1 as a critical update...
Author: WSUS Team Date: 02/20/2007