Microsoft just can’t seem to keep those darned updates from installing without administrator approval, in the latest occurrence, some Windows Server 2003 machines received and installed an update for Windows Desktop Search.

Those that had already approved the first update for Desktop Search automatically had Tuesdays’ update install but that wasn’t supposed to happen.  Maybe it wasn’t but because Microsoft reused the same update package, the update installed because it already had permission to from the first one.

Of course, this enabled Windows Desktop Search on some systems that it wasn’t supposed to be running on and caused servers to slow to a crawl.  The problems of the update came to be known when all the IT people got in to work, with almost everyone complaining of slow networks but it wasn’t the network, it was the fact that Desktop Search decided to index everything on the computers and connected hard drives.

At first, Microsoft denied any wrong doing but by the end of the day decided to issue an apology and pull the update from the Windows Server Update Service.

ComputerWorld reports on user responses caused by this whole debacle, one user said, “Nice move, guys…now I get to waste time figuring out how to disable this damn thing that I never wanted in the first place.”

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Entry was posted on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 2:18 pm under Microsoft.  Print This Post

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