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Vic
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      08-16-2005
I'm running Windows 2000 server and all patches are and always have been kept
up to date, installed the same day they're released.

On Aug. 10th I installed Update Rollup 1 for SP4 and didn't notice until now
that when I run HFNetChkPro it shows I am missing 15 critical patches, dating
back to Oct 2003. I checked a HFNetChkPro scan log I'd done August 1st and
that showed no missing patches.

When I run MBSA V2, it shows no missing patches, likewise when I go to
Windows Update, no patches are missing.

I'd appreciate any ideas on what happened and how to verify that the patches
are installed correctly.
Thanks.



 
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Robert Aldwinckle
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      08-17-2005
"Vic" <> wrote in message news:A2B029F7-618D-40FA-909C-
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> When I run MBSA V2, it shows no missing patches, likewise when I go to
> Windows Update, no patches are missing.


Try using MBSA 1.2.1 instead, e.g. its mbsacli /hf -v -z
although even that isn't as good as I remember how it once was.

MBSA 2.0 seems to be missing things.
(e.g. MDAC 2.8 and MSXML 3.0 updates)

See final post from Dave Hawley in thread
"Windows 2000 SP4 Rollup "Sticking"

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...e3f&sloc=en-us


OT: where is HFNetChk getting their mssecure.xml file from now?
Or is there a new implementation for it too? Dave's thread showed me
how out of touch I had become with options for version checking.

Another much touted freebie is Belarc's scanner.
What does it show you? Apparently Dave's results
weren't too impressive. <eg>

The only other things that I can think of would be to see if
activating verbose logging for WU allows you to understand
the differences between the checkers any better. (ref. KB902093)

My guess would be that WU is being blocked by assumptions
made from registry information which HFNetChk particularly
with its -v -z options can be made to ignore (assuming it still has those?
<w>)


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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> I'm running Windows 2000 server and all patches are and always have been kept
> up to date, installed the same day they're released.
>
> On Aug. 10th I installed Update Rollup 1 for SP4 and didn't notice until now
> that when I run HFNetChkPro it shows I am missing 15 critical patches, dating
> back to Oct 2003. I checked a HFNetChkPro scan log I'd done August 1st and
> that showed no missing patches.
>
> When I run MBSA V2, it shows no missing patches, likewise when I go to
> Windows Update, no patches are missing.
>
> I'd appreciate any ideas on what happened and how to verify that the patches
> are installed correctly.
> Thanks.
>
>
>



 
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