November 04, 2008 by
Jason
Announced as early a July 2008, a new update for the Windows Update Agent will be rolled out today, Monday, November 3. At the end of October, Microsoft offered a heads up for customers to prepare for the start of this week when the standalone WUA update was scheduled to become available. The Redmond company updates not only its software products, but also its updating infrastructure, part of which is represented by the Windows Update Agent. However, the software giant indicated that not all customers would be able to benefit from the WU Agent update immediately.
“Over the next couple of months we’ll be rolling out another infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent (client code). This update makes it possible for users to install more than 80 updates at the same time,†a member of the Microsoft Update team revealed. “We need to periodically update the client code to provide improvements in reliability and service quality.†Read More»
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December 19, 2007 by
Jason The delivery of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 1 via Windows Update is not as smooth as you might think. In fact, Microsoft is aware of erroneous installations for Vista SP1 RC, scenarios that subsequently involve failed deployments of the service pack. Through the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Public Availability Program, Microsoft is allowing all Vista users to access the Release Candidate public build of Vista SP1 as a download from Windows Update, instead of the standalone installers also made available.
The program involves grabbing and executing a script designed to set a registry value that will permit the identification of Vista SP1 RC, on Windows Update. However, it is not uncommon for users to come across error 0×80092004, and having the Vista SP1 WU download stop. “This issue only affects customers who previously installed the RC Preview (Build 17042 / v658). It is caused by a component that did not completely uninstall when you uninstalled the RC Preview, especially if you tried to install the latest build over Windows Update right away”, Microsoft informed. Read More»
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