Changed Firewall Policy in XP SP2

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Date:         Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:52:35 -0400
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM

One of the SP2 Firewall policies appears to have a somewhat new behavior, if
"Not Configured". This may be old news, and if so, I apologize, but I have
not seen it mentioned to date.

Policy name: Reschedule Automatic Updates scheduled installation

The explanation for this policy is:

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"Specifies the amount of time for Automatic Updates to wait, following
system startup, before proceeding with a scheduled installation that was
missed previously."

"If the status is set to Enabled, a scheduled installation that did not take
place earlier will occur the specified number of minutes after the computer
is next started."

"If the status is set to Disabled, a missed scheduled installation will
occur with the next scheduled installation."

"If the status is set to Not Configured, a missed scheduled installation
will occur one minute after the computer is next started."

"Note: This policy applies only when Automatic Updates is configured to
perform scheduled installations of updates. If the 'Configure Automatic
Updates' policy is disabled, this policy has no effect."

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Previously, the behavior was, "If the status is set to Disabled or Not
Configured, a missed scheduled installation will occur with the next
scheduled installation." Now, behavior if Disabled is different from
behavior if Not Configured, and behavior if Not Configured is clearly
different from what it was previously.

Joe Dance

University of South Carolina

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