RE: Automatic update not updating

From: Curtis Koenig [MSFT] (curtisko_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:31:26 GMT

The Automatic Updates (AU) client has a random time between 17-22 (+/-
7hrs) that is does a scan of Windows Update (WU) to check for new patches.
Its possible your machine just has not done the automatic scan yet. While
you can specify an install time you can not specify the scan time and it
will randomly fall between the numbers I quoted above. Once it does detect
new patches then Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) will
download the patches from WU and the AU client will notify you when they
are ready to install. So there can be some delay here. It does not happen
immediatly when we release the patch publicly. 

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Curtis Koenig
Security Support Engineer
Product Support Services, Security Team
MCSE, MCSES, CISSP
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
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>From: "A Beck" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>Subject: Automatic update not updating
>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:30:36 -0700
>
>I have the Win XP Pro automatic update service set to 
>download all updates and then notify prior to 
>installation.  I have not been notified of any new 
>updates today but when I go to the Windows update 
>website, I notice that there are 6 security updates that 
>I need to download and install.  Why doesn't the 
>automatic update service download and install all 
>security updates?
>
>Thank you.
>

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