Microsoft has posted a long and complex explanation to its Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) blog, explaining the latest case of why software updates are being pushed to users who believe they’ve turned automatic updating off. The UK Register reported on October 25 that a number of admins were seeing Microsoft Desktop Search 3.01 pushed out to users via Microsoft’s WSUS enterprise patching/update system, in spite of having opted out of this “resource-hogging search app.”
Bobbie Harder, Microsoft Product Manager for WSUS, explained why some companies were seeing the updated Windows Desktop Search bits (aka, the updated package for KB917013) pushed to their users. It turns out Microsoft changed the deployment rules after the original release of Windows Desktop Search. Harder noted: “The original update release, released February 2007 as an optional update, was only applicable on systems which had a version of Windows Desktop Search installed. The recent update Revision 105, had the applicability logic expanded to be applicable to all systems regardless if a prior version of Windows Desktop Search was installed, IF of course, approved in the WSUS Administrative UI or via Administrator-set auto-approval rules.”
View: Full Article @ Mary Jo Foleys Blog
Bobbie Harder, Microsoft Product Manager for WSUS, explained why some companies were seeing the updated Windows Desktop Search bits (aka, the updated package for KB917013) pushed to their users. It turns out Microsoft changed the deployment rules after the original release of Windows Desktop Search. Harder noted: “The original update release, released February 2007 as an optional update, was only applicable on systems which had a version of Windows Desktop Search installed. The recent update Revision 105, had the applicability logic expanded to be applicable to all systems regardless if a prior version of Windows Desktop Search was installed, IF of course, approved in the WSUS Administrative UI or via Administrator-set auto-approval rules.”
View: Full Article @ Mary Jo Foleys Blog
MS have pulled the update now.
Who dares file a lawsuit against a corporation that seems to think they own the entire planet?
Anyone looking for money need only look to Microsoft.
Who dares file a lawsuit against a corporation that seems to think they own the entire planet?
I would (if I had the money) and would mention the everlasting love of the 'Sarbanes-Oxley Act'.
Let me get this straight. You approved the original installation of Desktop Search, but now you are objecting to the revision?
However they revised the update package to install regardless(revisions are automatically accepted) and didn't bother reclassifying it as a "Tool or feature pack" which would have required admins approve it again, although this time aware it would install everywhere.
Our workstations already had it, so I didn't really notice.
I'm wondering if that's why it was done! It might not have been an accident... If so, I then must wonder why. Is MS so financially hurt by the fact that Vista is poorly adopted in some cases and they put so much money into it? Hmm... I really must wonder...
I'm wondering if that's why it was done! It might not have been an accident... If so, I then must wonder why. Is MS so financially hurt by the fact that Vista is poorly adopted in some cases and they put so much money into it? Hmm... I really must wonder...
Nice try. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home
All they have done is tried to step around the fact that they stuffed up big time, and whoever has convinced their management that it is working as designed should be fired for the stuffup.
Also their management should be fired for either trying to cover up the problem, or for being so incompetent that they have been hoowinked by their guilty employee (at the end users peril!
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