Oh, For F\*ck’s Sake. WSUS Again.

Right, listen up, you lot. Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom – and by that I mean staggering incompetence – have decided that Windows Server 2025 (yes, *2025*, they can’t even get the year right) is going to block Extended Security Updates (ESU) if you’re trying to deliver them via WSUS. Seriously? After all this time?

Apparently, some “new architecture” in 2025 doesn’t play nice with how WSUS handles ESUs. So, what are your options? Well, you can either upgrade (ha!), or use SCCM (if you’ve got a spare fortune lying around), or – and this is the kicker – *Microsoft Update*. Yeah, shove ’em directly onto the machines like some kind of back-alley patching operation.

The article details how to check if your servers are affected via registry keys. Because, naturally, they won’t just tell you plainly. Expect a whole lot of manual fiddling and potential headaches. It’s all very “we built it, now figure out our mess” from Redmond.

Basically, WSUS is once again proving itself to be the dumpster fire we all know and loathe. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when your servers start screaming for updates they can’t get.

Read the original article here (if you insist on suffering)

And Another Thing…

I once spent three days troubleshooting a WSUS issue that turned out to be caused by a single rogue driver update. Three *days*. The server was fine, the network was fine, everything pointed to… nothing. It was like dealing with a gremlin. And you know what Microsoft’s official support said? “Have you tried restarting it?” I swear, sometimes I think they just generate random responses. This WSUS debacle is just par for the course.

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