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IE 7 To Be Pushed Out Via WSUS Auto-Update in February
Cecilia Cole, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) program manager, announced today on Microsoft's WSUS team blog that the service will force-push out Internet Explorer 7 to organizations with WSUS set to auto-approve updates.
The rollout will come on Feb. 12, the same day Microsoft is scheduled to release
that month's Patch Tuesday update.
According to Cole's post, the push will affect "few" users as most do not use the non-default auto-update setting, although no figures were given.
According to Microsoft knowledge base article KB946202,
IT admins who use the auto-update setting will have to disable it before Feb.
12 in order to avert the push. The article contains instructions for disabling
auto-approve, as well as for avoiding it from being installed when re-enabling
the auto-updates after the release.
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