MS09-043 - Revision of Updates

[Montgomery@discussions.microsoft.com Mike Montgomery]

The WSUS servers in my env have 2 settings that relate to “Revisions of
Updates” and both are enabled in our env -- configured under Options ->
Automatic Approvals -> Advanced.

1.Automatically approve new revisions of updates that are already approved
2.Automatically decline updates when a new revision causes them to expire

One of the KB's (KB947319) in MS09-043 was revised on 10/27/2009; however,
if I look in Security Updates on my server, I see 2 versions of the KB.

1.The original from 8/11/2009 -- set to Install. Labelled as "This update is
superseded by another update"
2.The update from 10/27/2009 - set to Not Approved. Labelled as "This update
supersedes another update"

Since the Aug version of the KB was set to install, I expected for
"Automatic Revision of Updates" to set the Oct version to install, but this
did not happen.

1.Do I have an incorrect understanding of the "Revision of Updates" settings?
2.If not, are others experiencing this same?

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[Harry Johnston [MVP]]

Mike,

Supersedance is not the same thing as revision. This is expected behaviour.

In the majority of cases when an update has changed for some reason, a new
package is released which supersedes the old package. Packages are revised only
relatively infrequently, if you exclude package expiration.

Harry.