Seriously? *Another* Microsoft Screw-Up.

Oh, joy. As if we didn’t have enough to deal with, Microsoft has managed to bungle updates again. Apparently, Windows 11 and Server 2025 (because of course it’s 2025 already) might flat-out refuse to install updates if you’re trying to pull them from a network share. Yeah, that’s right. The whole “centralized update management” thing? Potentially broken. Because why make things *easy* for admins?

The problem stems from some changes in how they handle SMB (Server Message Block) – the protocol used for file sharing. They’re tightening security, which is great, except it’s breaking compatibility with perfectly legitimate update setups. They’ve acknowledged it, naturally *after* people started noticing things weren’t working. There’s a workaround involving some registry fiddling and disabling SMB signing (because turning off security features is always the answer, right?). Or you can just… not use network shares for updates. Brilliant.

They’re promising a fix “in the coming months.” Months! So we’re all supposed to just sit here with potentially vulnerable systems while they sort their shit out? Fantastic. Just bloody fantastic. Expect more headaches, wasted time, and probably some late nights for anyone actually responsible for keeping these things running.

Honestly, I’m starting to think Microsoft deliberately introduces problems so people will buy more expensive “support” packages. Don’t even get me started on the whole forced upgrade path… it’s a racket, pure and simple.

Source: BleepingComputer

And Another Thing…

I once spent three days tracking down an update failure that turned out to be caused by a single, rogue character in a GPO. A *single* character. Three days of log parsing, testing, and general misery because some intern couldn’t bother to proofread their work. This? This is just par for the course with these clowns. Don’t expect anything less.

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