Via ComputerWorld -
November 12, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A glitch in the software that most midsize and large businesses use to update their Microsoft 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 nonsecurity updates Microsoft Corp. has planned for tomorrow, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at security tools vendor nCircle Inc. "It appears that anybody who synced WSUS [with Microsoft's Windows Update servers] today or yesterday is essentially DOA," he 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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You get what you pay for, I guess.
But this is a real issue since Microsoft is planning to release at least one critical fix for Windows XP and Windows 2003 tomorrow.
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