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Microsoft Windows is the most widely used desktop operating system in the world. That doesn't necessarily make it the best. For many of us, supporting it is how we make our living. One of the endearing and annoying features of this ubiquitous OS is the monthly patch update process. Most of the time it occurs seamlessly. It just kind of works in the background when you're not looking. However, there are times when it rears its ugly head and demands attention.
Windows Server Update ServicesIn our company we run WSUS - Windows Server Update Services - to keep all our Windows desktops updated. In case you are not familiar with it, WSUS is Microsoft's free patch management tool. I don't know why they named it WSUS. I only use it to update my workstations. I don't trust it on the servers. I would rather manage that process myself. I'll install the updates on a non-critical server during the week to test them. I do the rest of the servers on the weekend.
But for the workstations it does a pretty good job - most of the time. It pushes them out after I approve them and then installs them late at night, usually with an automatic reboot when completed. I have trained my users over the years to ALWAYS leave their computers on to accommodate the patch process, the weekly AV scans and so that I can get into their workstations any time I need to work on them in the evening. They are pretty good about logging off.
Microsoft likes WSUS because it cuts down on the number of users hitting the Windows Update site. And that's what this post is really about. Microsoft has been slowly moving everyone over to Microsoft Update instead of Windows Update. If you don't know the difference then you don't do Windows support. OK, here's the main difference: In addition to OS patches, Microsoft Update takes care of your MS Applications like Office, SQL Server and Exchange.
Repairing Microsoft Update the old wayOccasionally, the patch process will throw up. WSUS has a good monitoring and reporting feature that allows me to see at a glance which machines are struggling with the stuff Microsoft is trying to send to it. So I do a Remote Desktop session to the machine in question and run the process manually. I know something is really messed up when I get a 0x8024001D error or some other stupid hex number. That's when it used to get really annoying. Not any more.
I used to spend hours looking up ways to get around these errors. At one time I liked Scott Hanselman's method of renaming the c:windowsSoftwareDistributionDownload to c:windowsSoftwareDistributionDownload.poo. Someone on his blog actually asked if the .poo extension was necessary. I think he was teasing. After nuking the old folder, run the update again and all is well but it takes a long time to go through that long download and update process.
Here is the 'Simple Fix'That's not really necessary. I have found that the easiest way to fix a Microsoft Update problem is to switch back to Windows Update from the 'Change Setting' option on the left-side menu. Don't see it? Scroll down. Click on 'Disable Microsoft Update software and let me use Windows Update only' and then click on 'Apply changes now.' After the silly thing asks if you are sure (duh!), it will then launch Windows update. Run it and then switch back to MS Update.
This process of switching from the newer method to the older one and then back again seems to fix a host of registry errors and other wastes of time. It is simple and fast and has almost always worked for me.
Windows 10 is in a dangerous moment. It has missed sales expectations, is no longer free and now the troubled ‘Anniversary Update’ - the biggest upgrade Windows 10 has received to date - is causing new problems…Discovered by
As Thurrott writer Brad Sams notes, of particular concern is a Microsoft support thread where it is clear that customers of substantial enterprise clients are being hit hard.
One user writes: “We have a working product running for years and millions of unhappy users that are unable to use it at all after this update” with another explaining: “We have millions of users and we are in situation now where we have to tell them not to update the Windows anymore or switch to Mac OS.”
Windows 10's biggest update yet has been hit by new problems. Image credit: Microsoft
Microsoft has replied to the thread to acknowledge the problem and said it is working on a fix. The company also explained the logic behind a controversial decision it made which caused the problem in the first place.
In short: with the Anniversary Update installed Windows 10 drops support for all USB connected webcams that use the ubiquitous MJPEG or H.264 encoded streams (only the YUY2 will work). The reasoning behind this was Microsoft wanted to boost webcam performance on its own Windows apps which gain new permissions to access user webcams with the Anniversary Update.
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Those apps use MJPEG and H.264 so it was possible webcam streams could’ve been duplicated, lowering performance. To avoid this Microsoft cut off MJPEG and H.264 support for third party USB webcams instead:
“It was important for us to enable concurrent camera access, so Windows Hello, Microsoft Hololens and other products and features could reliably assume that the camera would be available at any given time, regardless of what other applications may be accessing it,” the company explained.
Yes it sounds crazy to me too but at least Microsoft will backtrack.
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Furthermore, until an official fix is found, engineer Rafael Rivera has discovered a successful workaround for those who aren’t afraid to edit the Windows registry:
A workaround has been found to the Windows 10 Anniversary Update webcam problem. Image credit: Twitter
Ultimately the whole situation is highly regrettable for Microsoft given the Anniversary Update does also contain some significant upgrades and great secret features.
But as it stands the Anniversary Update is doing more harm than good to the reputation of Windows 10 and it is hard to see how it will convince Windows 7 and Windows 8 users, who declined to upgrade to Windows 10 when it was free, to upgrade now they have to pay.
Then again, this is why Microsoft has a mischievous plan to transform Windows 7 and Windows 8 into Windows 10...
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