full-disclosure - No more windowsupdate for Windows 2000 Server Family?

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From: lists.netsys.com at jscript.dk (Thor Larholm)
Subject: No more windowsupdate for Windows 2000 Server Family?

Come back later, this happens randomly on all my systems ranging from 95 to
2003.

Temporary glitch or a single misconfigured server in a cluster - who knows, who
cares *shrug*


Thor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Irwan Hadi" <irwanhadi@...by.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] No more windowsupdate for Windows 2000 Server Family?


> I've just visited http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com to update my
> Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server, and I got this everytime I went
> there (with latest IE 6.0, etc. I just want to get the last IE and MDAC
> updates):
>
> ========================================
> http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/thanks.asp
>
> Thank you for your interest in Windows Update
>
> Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you get the
> most out of your computer.
>
> The latest version of Windows Update is available on computers that are
> running Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows
> Millennium Edition, Windows 2000 (except Windows 2000 Datacenter
> Server), Windows XP, and the Windows Server 2003 family.
>
> =========================================
>
> When I tried to open windowsupdate from my Windows 2000 Professional
> box, it works fine. Now are the Windows 2000 server families can't use
> windowsupdate anymore or what? I think Microsoft should give the server
> families higher priority than the desktop family since if the server is
> down, there are more desktops can't access the things they need to do,
> then if one desktop is down!!!
>
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