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It's Microsoft Patch Tuesday: May 2012

Are the Microsoft patches giving you trouble this month? Your peers can help - describe the problems you are having.

I ran Windows 7 updates on the 1st of May and subsequently lost all access to the internet. My ADSL line was active and I was able to ping my service provider, but could not send or receive email, get onto the internet with IE or Google, or connect to Skype. It took me a few days to figure out what happened. I eventually did a system restore and everything started working again.
Not going to be running any updates again in a hurry!

We are getting ready (finally) to deploy windows 7 to the entire High School District we have just about 2000plus machines. What would be the approach to design a windows update server in conjunction with AD and group Policy. We AD 2008 ready, GOP in place, we are at the beging stage.. Any documentation will help thanks

Look at the Windows Server System Update Service (SUS); it's included with Server and should simply be another "role" you can enable/install. It then downloads the updates to your local network so your client machines can pull from it rather than Microsoft. I believe you can also select which updates are to be installed.

why all these remote user rights? last night i left my pc on for 2 hrs set to desktop, when i clicked my mouse Netflicks was sitting there..what is this about?

Netflicks? Unsure what you installed!

These updates that you present in this article are not the same updates as were uploaded to my computer yesterday. Wazzup? (My OS is WinXP SP3 HP Media Center PC m7260n)

Too bad I can't insert a .jpeg image of the update dialog box in this pane. Not exactly "High Tech".

Even though there was seven bulletins, 3 of them had multiple updates. For example MS12-034 had 4 updates for Windows XP OS alone plus .net Framework versions, Office and Silverlight. In theory, you could have maybe a dozen updates to install for a single bulletin. MS12-030 and MS12-035 have also multiple updates. When I first saw six bulletins I thought it was a "light" month. I was wrong [of course the advance notification Email doesn't give any idea on how many actual updates.]. Odly I had some old .net framework updates to reapply.

Same here. My Win 7 update list is almost completely different from the Patch Tuesday list and includes various .NET updates; what's going on?

Hi,

My WinXP has been installing the May 2012 patch at every shutdown for the last week or so; never any error message, and installation seems to go ok, every time!

Any way to stop this?

Thanks.

Never choose Install and shutdown. That function was an afterthought that, in my opinion, never worked reliably. Run the updates by clicking on the yellow shield. You will need to be logged in as an administrator to do this. Choose the custome option then click Next to see what updates are there. Click Install to start the update. Once the box disappears, click the yellow balloon to bring it back so you can follow the progress. Once it finishes, any failures will be listed. It doesn't actually tell you why it failed, but at least you'll know what to Google for

My favorite problem is when the update requires you to accept a new EULA before it can continue, but you chose Install and Shutdown, so there is no way for it to display the Accept button, so it just waits for you to answer a question you can't see. I can't count the number of times users have called me over in the morning to tell me "It's still installing update 3 of 7 from last night"

Thanks khiatt for your reply; I had never heard about this before.

So I logged in as Admin.

But there is NO yellow shield (and the taskbar is not locked)!
But if I go to shutdown, I am again offered to install the update (or to shutdown without installing). So I can't customize or see what updates are suggested.

Problem does not seem to be an unanswered prompt: every time I ??installed?? the update (a few times before I realized there was a problem), computer shutdown after installation.