V5 Windowsupdate gets Error 0x80244021

I am getting the "scenario 2" error described in this knowledgebase article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;885819

We are going through a corporate proxy running ISA server, and this proxy
authenticates its connections. Anonymous connections are not allowed at all.
Therefore the V5 Windowsupdate software is not authenticating with the proxy
server and failing. V4 windowsupdate did not have this bug- and it *is* a
bug, that knowledgebase article confirms it as such.

The work around described in that knowledgebase article talks about fixing
up ISA server to allow anonymous connections. That's all well and good,
except (a) it's not my ISA server and I don't have the access to edit it, and
(b) they wouldn't allow anonymous connections anyway, even if I asked them to.

Is Microsoft going to fix this egregious bug in V5 of windowsupdate? When?
PLEASE?

We can't get security fixes from Windowsupdate until this is taken care of.

This may sound odd, but I am also experincing the same problem as scenario 2
but with scenario 1's error code. The really odd thing is that I'm not using
a proxy, so unless I'm looking in the wrong place this must be a really big
problem.

tfabris sorry I can't help you, but you may have helped me. Thank you.

"tfabris" wrote:

> I am getting the "scenario 2" error described in this knowledgebase article:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;885819
>
> We are going through a corporate proxy running ISA server, and this proxy
> authenticates its connections. Anonymous connections are not allowed at all.
> Therefore the V5 Windowsupdate software is not authenticating with the proxy
> server and failing. V4 windowsupdate did not have this bug- and it *is* a
> bug, that knowledgebase article confirms it as such.
>
> The work around described in that knowledgebase article talks about fixing
> up ISA server to allow anonymous connections. That's all well and good,
> except (a) it's not my ISA server and I don't have the access to edit it, and
> (b) they wouldn't allow anonymous connections anyway, even if I asked them to.
>
> Is Microsoft going to fix this egregious bug in V5 of windowsupdate? When?
> PLEASE?
>
> We can't get security fixes from Windowsupdate until this is taken care of.