Black Monday for WSUS'ers

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9046478&source=rss_news10

November 12, 2007  (Computerworld) -- A glitch in the software that
most medium- and large-sized businesses use to update their Microsoft
Corp. applications and operating systems has some administrators
scrambling a day before Patch Tuesday.

If the problem in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is not fixed
before tomorrow, administrators will not be able to download and
deploy the vulnerability patches and other non-security updates
Microsoft has planned for tomorrow, said Andrew Storms, director of
security operations at nCircle Inc. "It appears that anybody who
synced WSUS [with Microsoft's Windows Update servers] today or
yesterday is essential DOA," Storms said. The default WSUS setting is
to sync daily.

WSUS users began reporting the error this morning when they first
accessed the WSUS console. According to those reports, the error read:
"The WSUS administration console has encountered an unexpected error."

"WSUS was working without any problems before the weekend, nothing has
changed on the server," said a user identified as drobb on a forum
hosted by a third-party site dedicated to the update management
software.

"Any time I try to access the product list, through Products and
Classification under Options or through a new update view, [WSUS]
errors out," added Dirkle, another user on the same thread. "There is
a message on the main screen that 5 new products have been added in
the last 30 days. Could it be a possible issue with one of the new
products they added to WSUS?"

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-JP<hey, its better than WSUS'ies>
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