MVPs (or anybody) -- the recent "high priority" updates?

This question has been posted in various forms by various people in
various newsgroups without an authoritative answer.

Can somebody step up to the plate?

Since the release of Service Pack 2 for XP in early August and turning
the "Automatic Updates" button on after restarting from the SP2
install...


There have been 3 (three) "high priority" updates in Windows Update:

1) .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3

2) .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1

3) The GDI+ Detection Tool


None of these updates has "automatically installed".


Yet, they are listed as "high priority" updates in Windows Update.


Can somebody either post to say:

1) Yes, these updates have automatically installed on my machine with
Service Pack 2 installed and "automatically install" checked.

2) No -- these specific updates -- even though they are "high
priority" updates -- will *not* automatically install for the following
reason...


Yes -- these updates will *manually* install without a problem, so it's
not like Windows Update isn't "working".

Yet, I've checked with a large number of Windows Admins around Campus
here and - *to a person* - nobody has had any of these "high priority"
updates automatically install.


And we're wondering why not.

Because we're wondering if Automatic Updates is actually broken in SP2.

Which would be a "security" problem.


Thanks!

- Steve

I've witnessed same behavior in a Win 2K environment. Am sure MS is on top of
this as we speak.

Right?

- d

"Steve Maser" wrote:

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>
> 3) The GDI+ Detection Tool
>
>
> None of these updates has "automatically installed".
>

<snip>

On our servers it specifically stated after the reboot that the patches were
not applied because there nothing installed on the machines that would have
caused the patches to be required.

So, they don't install on machine that have no component for them to
actually patch. That what the pop up message indicated.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"SF Dave" <SF > wrote in message
news:C44814E4-7E19-47CC-B058-...
> I've witnessed same behavior in a Win 2K environment. Am sure MS is on top
of
> this as we speak.
>
> Right?
>
> - d
>
> "Steve Maser" wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >
> > 3) The GDI+ Detection Tool
> >
> >
> > None of these updates has "automatically installed".
> >
>
> <snip>

In article <>, Phillip Windell
<@.> wrote:

> On our servers it specifically stated after the reboot that the patches were
> not applied because there nothing installed on the machines that would have
> caused the patches to be required.
>
> So, they don't install on machine that have no component for them to
> actually patch. That what the pop up message indicated.\


OK, then.

But what about the two .NET updates?

Shouldn't these have been "automatically installed" if we had installed
*all* Windows Updates (including all "optional updates") *prior* to SP2
installation in August?


Or is it just a weird/confusing conicidence that there have been 3
"high priority" updates released that would *intentionally not* be
"automatically installed" on an SP2 computer?


I can understand the GDI+ thing -- it's doesn't directly affect SP2.

But the .NET stuff -- if you have it installed -- isn't that a "high
priority" patch that *should* be automatically installed?



Or is the question one that *all three* of these updates should *not*
have been in the "high priority" section of W.U., but, rather in the
"optional" section and MS is just making this series of patches
confusing?


That's what nobody here at U of M seems to get and we can't find any
documentation relating to this.

- Steve