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Unanswered Silverlight: 2 - WSUS - Windows Server 2008 Core

  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:37 AM
     
     
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    2 Months ago I reported that Silverlight was being offered by WSUS for Server Core and on the 15th of this month I added a comment to the same thread to ensure that this would not be the case when Silverlight 2 KB 957938 gets pushed through WSUS.

    Surprise! (Or not :P) - Silverlight 2 is being offered by WSUS to Server 2008 Core.

    And what the following the statement in KB957938 means is anyone's guess:-

    Silverlight 2 contains an auto-updating mechanism. By default, this mechanism is disabled in the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) package.


    WSUS Server Core Silverlight 2
    Cheers, Stephen Edgar
    • Changed Type Tim QuanModerator Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:08 AM comment
    • Changed Type Stephen Edgar Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:23 AM Tim, It is not a comment it is a question and needs to be addressed.
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  • Friday, October 24, 2008 5:09 PM
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    Hi,

    Sorry, I must have missed your earlier posts. I'm talking with the Silverlight team to figure out why this is happening as it certainly shouldn't be.

    Thanks,

    Andrew
     
  • Friday, October 24, 2008 6:35 PM
     
     
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    Thanks Andrew,

    I thought from the previous post 2 months ago (1st link in my above post) that Laura Zhang had passed this onto the WSUS/Silverlight/ServerCore teams and this would not happen again, the only way to keep WSUS 'looking clean' is to now 'Decline Silverlight 2' as I cannot decline it for only a single WSUS group.

    WSUS Server Core Silverlight 2 Status


    So everyhting (except 2 Vista machines from today's critical update) are 'All Green & OK' except now the three server core machines will stay that way waiting with '1 Needed Update' until either the WSUS Update for Silverlight 2 is revised and re-published or I decline Silverlight 2 for my entire WSUS Server.
    Cheers, Stephen Edgar
     
  • Monday, October 27, 2008 4:50 AM
     
     
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    Tim Quan,

    You originally changed this question to a comment which I had to revert, now you marked my last post as the answer, it is not the answer to the question and until Microsoft supply an answer to this question with a resolution to the problem it will remain unanswered.
    Cheers, Stephen Edgar
     
  • Monday, November 03, 2008 9:50 PM
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    Hi,

    We have gotten to the bottom of this, the Silverlight update is using the wrong detection mechanism. This results in it applying to Vista and greater, which includes Server Core. We are working with the update team to provide the right detection mechanism to prevent this from happening.

    Andrew
     
  • Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:39 AM
     
     
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    Thanks Andrew,

    For those of you watching at home you will need to remember that if Silverlight updates are being issued to any part of your network infrastructure and you have Windows Server 2008 Core connected to the same WSUS Server distributing the updates you will always have one update required for your Server Core machines until the teams can push out a new revision of Silverlight or an update for the WSUS detection is released.
    Cheers, Stephen Edgar
    • Edited by Stephen Edgar Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:47 AM Updated for viewers watching at home :P
    • Marked As Answer by Stephen Edgar Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:48 AM
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  • Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:57 PM
     
     
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    Silverlight is also trying (and failing) to install to a Windows 2000 machine that I have on my network. It's KB 957938. Would you please fix this so it no longer tries to install to Windows 2000 Workstation?
     
  • Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:01 AM
     
     
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    FAIL! - Again we repost for the Silverlight Update KB960353 released 25th Feb 09 and it is STILL wanting to install on Server Core.


    WSUS Server Core Silverlight 2 - 25FEB09

    Cheers, Stephen Edgar
     
  • Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:59 PM
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    Hi,

    This was supposed to have been fixed. I'm trying to find out what is going on with these.

    Andrew
     
  • Friday, March 20, 2009 3:51 AM
     
     
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    Thanks Andrew,

    I lay the blame directly with the WSUS team as it is more than just the Silverlight team, I see 'many' issues with WSUS be it Exchange Server, SQL, Visual Studio, Windows Live and many other updates that simply fail any form of QA process and are deployed to WSUS without proper testing. It typically is language specific, i.e. only 'English Updates' that can blow out from 60MB to 1.3GB and the fact that Silverlight is still being thrown to Server Core as an update is sad that the WSUS team have not worked out a solution for this, some may call this a bug, some may say it is a slight oversight, I say it is a lack of Quality Assurance Testing on Microsoft's part.

    With Silverlight 3 just announced at MIX09 the issue now will be when Silverlight 3 first gets published to WSUS if the products it applies to actually fixes this issue and does not report that it is needed for 'Server Core' then the previous Silverlight 2 updates will NOT be superseeded by this update for Server Core and Server Core will continue to report that it needs the Silverlight 2 updates until an update to WSUS is released that 'supersedes' the Silverlight 2 update requirements for Server Core.

    So the WSUS team need to release a hotfix for the WSUS, Server Core and Silverlight issue in advance to even thinking about publishing Silverlight 3 to WSUS otherwise Server Core will continue wanting the SL2 updates OR it will report that Server Core needs the SL3 update.
    Cheers, Stephen Edgar
     
  • Monday, December 21, 2009 3:45 PM
     
     
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    Has there been a resolution to this?  I still get Silverlight continually offered to Servers, including Server Core.

     
  • Monday, April 16, 2012 9:41 AM
     
     
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    Hello,

    I know this thread is almost 4 years old, but Silverlight still shows up in WSUS on server core and hyper-v server. Will there ever be a solution or do we just have to decline those updates.

    Gert MCITP SA, EA & VA

     
  • Monday, February 04, 2013 12:37 PM
     
     
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    We have three Server 2012 (Core) Servers which want to install Microsoft Silverlight (KB2668562).
    Two other Server 2012 (GUI) have no Silverlight installed but are reporting this KB as missed too.

    Is there any solution for that?

     
  • Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:44 PM
     
     
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    Putting my request in too, WSUS shows Silverlight updates as "needed" for my 2003 and 2008 servers even though Silverlight is not installed on them, nor do I want it to be installed on them.