First one: It starts to search updates installed in the PC and it didnt let me continue. Second one: Simplix isn't updated yet. I'll retry tomorrow. It's quite late here.
Stoop to what level? Offering optional updates? Also, "from a sysadmin standpoint" you'd use WSUS to control updates. And if you don't, you'd disable auto-installation of recommended updates. And you definitely wouldn't allow regular users to manually install updates at all. Not to mention disabling OS upgrades through group policy... What's the issue here?
Just ran Windows Update on my machine and I do not see any reference to KB3035583 anywhere - certainly not marked "important." Also got the official Patch Tuesday report at the work site - no mention of KB3035583 as being important. Sonic.
I haven't seen KB3035583 being remarked, though KB2952664 showed up again for no apparent reason in the last week. This was around the same time when KB3123862 showed up, which sounds very much like what KB3035583 was trying to accomplish, but the support article provides absolutely no technical details as to what this update really does: "The update adds capabilities to some computers that lets users easily learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10".
Unhiding updates that the EU has hidden because they don't want them. That's bushleague. Right, so, your excuse is that there's all these other things that can be done, so, what...it's ok that they unhide updates? 1) Not everyone uses WSUS, even corps on a domain; I just came from one of those. (The stories I could tell are probably worthy of The Reg's "Tales from IT" articles.) 2) We set up machines to auto update because we didn't care. (Because until now, MS has been trustworthy enough.) 3) Users didn't install their own updates. They could have, if they were smart enough to do so. 4) We didn't set that in GP. (Because until now, MS has been trustworthy enough.) Reconfiguring the domain to was above my pay grade and I didn't have the time to do it anyway. My boss didn't care, his boss didn't care. (Probably until now, post-10 launch.) Not every corp is on a domain, and not every domain is set up ideally. Yes, I know how they "should" be set up, but IT is not on the priority list for a lot of mid/large corps, unfortunately. Aside from that, what to everyone else then, eh? Normal users who don't want 10 and aren't on a domain (but are running 7 or 8 Pro)? F them, right?, because they can't do 1-4 above. That's not an acceptable answer; it's a bushleague answer. MS used to be better than this s**t...now they're below it.
Hiding an update only applies to that specific revision of the update, so whenever a new revision comes out it is offered again. That's nothing new really. I manage one domain using the exact same setup. No Windows 10 upgrade notification has ever shown up on the machines. That's because these updates are all in the category of "optional" or "recommended", and therefore won't ever get installed when you have auto-installation of "recommended" updates turned off. Everyone can (and, IMO, should) opt out of receiving the "recommended" updates. Done.
Only the same 3 updates from last week, there status changed: 2952664 -> recommended 3123862 -> recommended 3135445 -> important
@zero2dash Any chance that you can make your list into a script that checks WHD's downloaded folder recursively for the culprit updates and moves them to a new folder? Edit: Nvm figured it out
kb3138612 windows update client for windows 7 and windows server 2008 kb3138615 windows update client for windows 8.1 and windows server 2012
The only irony is that such a recognized malware expert is helping people block Windows 10. The software is almost certainly safe--Windows 10, not so much.
I just wanted to point out that he released a "program" that also blocks the W10 update. I assume it's safe to use.
I know. I just thought people would be interested to hear/see that gibson put one out himself. He's a trusted name in the computer world. P.S. I use aboddi's script