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Microsoft Issues Wrong Exchange 2007 Update

The botched update can send Windows servers into endless crashes

By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

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The whole episode left a bad taste in some users' mouths. "I am sorry but this is absolutely unacceptable," said a user identified as "Andy" in the first comment added to the Exchange blog post. "If a pre-release patch can get into Microsoft Update, you leave me no choice but to disable Automatic Updates."

"We apologize for any inconvenience and are working to make sure this does not happen again," Microsoft said in the Exchange blog.

This isn't the first snafu in Microsoft's update services. In June and July, the company had to fix two bugs in other patching mechanisms, including WSUS and the higher-end System Center Configuration Manager 2007, that had kept administrators from pushing patches to end users' PCs.

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