This once again highlights how bad the ecosystem with 3rd party tools used for basic system maintenance in the MS environment is. And how much companies and admins rely/depend on those.
I don't really understand why there are so many commercial third party tools being used to do basic things. But they cost a good amount of money and cause a lot of problems.
Nobody ever got fired for running a Linux server...
This seems to be used by Microsoft like the Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10 upgrades.
Looks like this is an issue with a a third party update client being confused by a potential misclassification in Microsoft's side about the update (security update vs upgrade).
What I'm most surprised by myself is that there doesn't seem to be an option to revert this according to the comments. I'm pretty sure consumer Windows allows downgrades for upgrades installed in this manner, I can't imagine the pain it'd be to need to manually undo all the damage after an unintended upgrade using automated tooling!
I wouldn't be surprised if it "upgraded" all your data into azure and disabled local admin...
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A similar thing happened to me last month. My Ubuntu server suddenly started showing a countdown, warning that my firewall was blocking Canonical's ‘essential data’ pings and threatened to revoke my apt privileges. I gave it a pass-through, but the next day, it upgraded itself to Ubuntu Galactic Cosmic and replaced all my bash scripts with PowerShell. Still getting used to the mandatory Snap packages for 'ls' and 'cat' now…
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An offer to update to Server 2025 is showing up in Windows Update for a Server 2019 system to which I have access but it is not auto-installing.
well thats terrifying.
It would be a good horror story for halloween, but that was last week…
thank god i moved my entire company to debian last year it's enough to deal with w11 on its own
Yet another thing that does not exist in a sane OS. Oh, if only Bill Gates hadn't done his dirty deeds.
> Microsoft appear to class this as a "Security Update",
>> as the GUID for the Windows Server 2025 upgrade does not match the usual entries for KB5044284 associated with Windows 11. This appears to be an error on Microsoft's side
Shall Microsoft now provide the missing license ?