The company has finally rolled out a patch for a recent WSUS issue

Apr 17, 2014 05:47 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft today released a new set of fixes for Windows 8.1 Update that are supposed to address the connectivity issues experienced with WSUS 3.2 and confirmed by the company last week.

The software giant says that the issue with Volume License Service Center and MSDN media actually affected “a very small number of customers which used the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).”

Basically, the company says, the glitch was only experienced by those consumers who were using specific settings to keep their devices updated, but due to the bug, no future updates released by Microsoft could be shipped to these computers.

At the same time, Microsoft claims that only a small part of the update has actually been deployed on machines using WSUS.

Everything should be working just fine now that a new update has been delivered, so make sure that you’re deploying the patches delivered to computers via Windows Update.

“With today’s release of a solution that resolves the connectivity issues with WSUS 3.2 described here, we have now published the Windows 8.1 Update (as well as the Windows Server 2012 R2 Update and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Update) to Windows Server Update Services (WSUS),” Microsoft said in an advisory published this morning.

“For organizations using WSUS, Windows Intune, or System Center Configuration Manager for updating their Windows 8.1 computers, this means that you can now easily deploy these updates to the computers or servers you manage.”

Microsoft says that although Windows Update will actually show the full Windows 8.1 Update on your computer, it will only download the part missing from your computer in order to successfully complete the deployment interrupted by the WSUS bug.

“For computers and servers that have already installed these updates, note that Windows Update will re-offer them but it will only install the portion of the update that addresses the fix. Other portions of the update which users have already downloaded and installed will not be downloaded or installed a second time,” the company continued.

End users, on the other hand, are still having problems deploying Windows 8.1 Update on their computers due to a number of errors that show up during the installation process. While it’s not yet clear why this is actually happening, it appears that Windows 8.1 Update fails to install on a number of PCs due to some sort of compatibility issues that leave behind part of the update and makes it impossible to try some alternative installation methods.