Update is "PerUpdate" regulated

Hi all

I have my machine configured to "Install Updates automatically". Today I
noticed a tray icon indicating that "New updates are available". When I
open the Windows Update window it shows a message saying that 3 important
updates totalling 402.5MB are available. The updates are for Office 2007
SP2, IE8 and .Net Framework 3.5 Sp1 (KB951847). The question is why these
updates have not already been downloaded and installed automatically as per
my computer setting? The KB951847 is from February, so this is obviously not
just a temporary thing.

I've found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910340, but this indicates the
download may take several days during periods of heavy traffic. Again, my
KB951847 is months old, so this doesn't appear to be the likely cause.

I have had other updates between Feb and now, so it just appears to be a
problem with certain updates.

The WindowsUpdate.log file indicates that the download is "PerUpdate"
regulated and can NOT download. Sequence 5592 vs AcceptRate 0.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Tony

Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3; Vista x64 SP2) when
posting to this newsgroup, please.

References:

Microsoft Update Product Team Blog: Update Notifications and
Install-at-Shutdown Behavior:
http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/...-shutdown.aspx

Much ado about nothing
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/arch...-updating.aspx

Though /your/ computer only "needs" Office 2007 SP2, IE8, and KB951847,
millions of other computers have needed many more than that this month (cf.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms09-jun.mspx) and the
servers have a limited capacity, hence the Regulation (AKA throttling) of
your 3 *non-security* updates (especially).

Compounding matters, KB951847 has a long history of failing to install since
its first release in Feb-09. In hopes of addressing these failures, MS
re-released a revised version of KB951847 update package a week ago. See
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archiv...ce-pack-1.aspx

You can install all of your pending updates via Microsoft Update website
(WinXP) or by running Windows Update manually (Vista) instead: Understand
that by doing so, you're pushing all other Automatic Updates users further
back in the queue (which may explain, at least in part, why Automatic
Updates hasn't brought them in for you yet).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Tony Murray wrote:
> I have my machine configured to "Install Updates automatically". Today I
> noticed a tray icon indicating that "New updates are available". When I
> open the Windows Update window it shows a message saying that 3 important
> updates totalling 402.5MB are available. The updates are for Office 2007
> SP2, IE8 and .Net Framework 3.5 Sp1 (KB951847). The question is why
> these
> updates have not already been downloaded and installed automatically as
> per
> my computer setting? The KB951847 is from February, so this is obviously
> not just a temporary thing.
>
> I've found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910340, but this indicates the
> download may take several days during periods of heavy traffic. Again, my
> KB951847 is months old, so this doesn't appear to be the likely cause.
>
> I have had other updates between Feb and now, so it just appears to be a
> problem with certain updates.
>
> The WindowsUpdate.log file indicates that the download is "PerUpdate"
> regulated and can NOT download. Sequence 5592 vs AcceptRate 0.
>
> Any thoughts?

"Tony Murray" <> wrote in message news:9D8B2E9E-038A-4C25-9EDA-...
> Hi all
>
> I have my machine configured to "Install Updates automatically". Today I
> noticed a tray icon indicating that "New updates are available". When I
> open the Windows Update window it shows a message saying that 3 important
> updates totalling 402.5MB are available. The updates are for Office 2007
> SP2, IE8 and .Net Framework 3.5 Sp1 (KB951847). The question is why these
> updates have not already been downloaded and installed automatically as per
> my computer setting?

> The KB951847 is from February, so this is obviously not just a temporary thing.


It's not clear to me that that one should be downloaded by AU.
E.g. it only refers to "Hot fixes" and "New features and functionalities".
That doesn't sound like it would meet the bars of "Critical" or "High Priority".
It doesn't even have a link to a TechNet Security Bulletin so that could
confirm those implications.


>
> I've found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910340, but this indicates the
> download may take several days during periods of heavy traffic. Again, my
> KB951847 is months old, so this doesn't appear to be the likely cause.
>
> I have had other updates between Feb and now, so it just appears to be a
> problem with certain updates.
>

> The WindowsUpdate.log file indicates that the download is "PerUpdate"
> regulated and can NOT download. Sequence 5592 vs AcceptRate 0.
>
> Any thoughts?


Which download is regulated? In my case it has been wuredir.cab
which has had this indication for months. It doesn't bother me because
I am currently using MU not WU but I suspect there may be unnecessary
server overhead due to the increased frequency of checking because of
this anomaly. I suppose I could fix it by switching from MU to WU and
then visiting WU but I'm just curious to see if it will ever be resolved
automatically. <eg>


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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