Monthly update traffic: A good reason to update your Windows 11 image monthly
Out of curiosity, I measured the amount of network traffic generated by Windows Update during a bare metal installation of the OS when there are no updates to install: I was using the 25H2 July WIM file from Microsoft and updating it as part of the DeployR bare metal installation process, so the only expected…
Still using WSUS? Patch Tuesday broke it…
These AI-inspired large Patch Tuesday updates are causing issues. Having cumulative updates suddenly picking up hundreds of individual fixes per month finally seems to have pushed WSUS over the edge: While most people noticed this after the July cumulative update, we actually noticed this earlier while working on DeployR, which has the ability to install…
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