SVCHost 100% installing patches

[mdolan]

Hi all,

Not sure what section this should be in, but this has been a huge issue for me and I suspect for others.

When installing patches/scanning via Windows/MS update, sometimes the svchost usage would jump to 100% and lock for a looooooong time. There have been various patches to this problem but none which really solved the issue. Until now.

MS have finally admitted that it's not just an MSI issue, but that it is actually related to the WU code. And there is a new agent to (theoretically) compensate for it. All the details can be found here and provisionally it looks good.

http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007.../update-on.aspx

Cheers,

Mike

[cluberti]

Hi all,

Not sure what section this should be in, but this has been a huge issue for me and I suspect for others.

When installing patches/scanning via Windows/MS update, sometimes the svchost usage would jump to 100% and lock for a looooooong time. There have been various patches to this problem but none which really solved the issue. Until now.

MS have finally admitted that it's not just an MSI issue, but that it is actually related to the WU code. And there is a new agent to (theoretically) compensate for it. All the details can be found here and provisionally it looks good.

http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007.../update-on.aspx

Cheers,

Mike

Note that you need the WU 3.0 client installed, _and_ 927891 for this to "work".