Microsoft suspends Windows 8.1 Update release to businesses

  • 9 April 2014
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Bug prompts Microsoft to halt update's delivery through WSUS, the standard enterprise update service.

Microsoft on Tuesday suspended serving Windows 8.1 Update to businesses that rely on WSUS (Windows Server Update Services), saying that a bug would prevent devices from recognizing future updates.

WSUS is Microsoft's standard corporate update service and is used by IT staffs to manage the distribution of bug fixes, security patches and other updates to Windows devices on a company's network.

"There is a known issue which causes some PCs updated with the Windows 8.1 Update to stop scanning against Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (WSUS 3.0 SP2 or WSUS 3.2) servers which are configured to use SSL and have not enabled TLS 1.2," Microsoft wrote on its WSUS blog.
 
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Dumb, Dumbs! 😠 Thanks Jeff!
 
Daniel
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Microsoft does it again...
 
 
(And almost everyone I know wonders why I commonly intentionally keep behind on updates for at least a couple weeks......)
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Didn't they make a movie about this...called Dumb and Dumber with Jim Carey? :D
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Unfortunately, this is not the first and probably not the last time ... :@
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What I am actually surprised about is...why everyone is surprised? http://www.forumsextreme.com/images2/sFun_crazybat.gif
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@ wrote:
What I am actually surprised about is...why everyone is surprised? http://www.forumsextreme.com/images2/sFun_crazybat.gif
It's a good point Baldrick ;)
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Hello, as TH 
(And almost everyone I know wonders why I commonly intentionally keep behind on updates for at least a couple weeks......)
 
I agree it's good to wait but Im not in a business...:S
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I am a little bit surprised that I have not heard of any problems other than what is reported here.
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Looks like they got this one fixed up now:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-fixes-windows-81-update-corporate-wsus-servers-240654

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