Auto Update anomaly(?)

[Rob]

My xp machine is set up (or so I thought!) to automatically apply any updates.
This morning it popped up the message that it had done so. I noted that the # was 5683.
I manually updated my w2kPro m/c and found the # to be 5685.

Went back and manually (re-)updated the xp machine and the # changed to 5685.

Is this a Beta "thing" or am I missing something obvious?

 

[Larry]

Rob, mine did exactly the same thing yesterday.
Larry

 

[Bill Sanderson]

This is a known bug in the display in Help About.

This is what I saw:

I had a message from autoupdate, which stated that the new version was 5683
(this was today or yesterday!)

I went to Help, about, and saw that the update date and time were correct,
but the version number was 5683.

I did a file, check for updates, which did no update, but stated that
everything was current.
Subsequent to that check, Help, about had the correct version number in it.

Bug--thanks for the reports--Microsoft is aware of this one.

 

[Rob]

Oh good, thought it was just one more thing I didn't understand!.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I suppose it should be comforting that we believe these silly machines to be
correct most of the time!

 

[Steve Wechsler [MVP]]

The update version number changes when you use Help, About MSAS, and
click the Diagnostic button, also, FWIW.

Steve Wechsler (akaMowGreen)
MVP Windows Server

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Interesting--thanks! I'd never noticed the bug until Steve Dodson mentioned
it, and now I see it EVERYWHERE!

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

The update version number changes when you use Help, About MSAS, and
click the Diagnostic button, also, FWIW.

Steve Wechsler (akaMowGreen)
MVP Windows Server

For me it changed after I checked for new updates.

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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

For me it changed after I checked for new updates.

To make it clear: I checked and it was 5683.
I looked for updates and it said I was current.
I checked again and it was 5685

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[Bill Sanderson]

Yep - that's the behavior I saw, with the additional filip that it was
AutoUpdate that originally told me it had successfully updated to 5683 when
I knew it had to have meant 5685.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Yep - that's the behavior I saw, with the additional filip that it was
AutoUpdate that originally told me it had successfully updated to
5683 when I knew it had to have meant 5685.

I didn't notice that. I was too busy with something else to read it that
carefully.

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