It’s another big patch week – and SANS are reporting that Microsoft SUS is having problems:

Microsoft SUS not playing well (NEW)
Published: 2005-11-09,
Last Updated: 2005-11-09 16:45:28 UTC by Tony Carothers (Version: 2(click to highlight changes))

Matthew Bailey just provided this input in regards to the SUS problems that are occuring

“I found this posting at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

The SUS 1.0 update cab is delayed today but will be published at ~ 5:00pm PDT today.

The WSUS cab has no delays and has been published.”

We’ve had a busy last ~12 hours. Reports are coming in that Microsoft’s SUS is not updating correctly, causing a lot of readers to have to manually roll out patches. If anybody has found this to not be the case, or found a way to kick SUS into gear, please send us a note, and I’ll get it out to the rest of the world 🙂

Most enterprises who are relying on SUS/WSUS for deployment of patches are still on SUS (the older technology). This is a pretty important process for enterprises – patching, and the race to patch on time, is causing a lot of IT administrator headaches.

For SUS to fail and administrators to have to manually roll out patches is a disaster; I am sure that after this many CIOs will mandate a close look at other options; maybe this will cause them to switch platforms, or at least look at a more robust patch solution.