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from the now-THAT-is-what-I-call-a-DDoS! dept.
The problem is affecting domain-attached Windows 7 PCs not signed up to Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for patches and updates, but looking for a Microsoft update instead.
The upshot is PCs, ranging from 10s to hundreds at a time, simultaneously chowing down on the 3GB-plus Windows 10 load, killing business networks.
[...] And it’s all happening despite Microsoft promising – here – that it wouldn’t.
[...] Users have logged urgent enquiries with Microsoft’s helpdesk but in the meantime have resorted to triage to stop the problem.
That means blocking traffic at the firewall stage that would normally have gone to Microsoft Update. Another option is to switch settings to the WSUS server.
Any Soylentils run into this problem? What have you done to cope with it?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by seeprime on Saturday August 08 2015, @07:11AM
We have two identical Windows 7 Pro workstations in our small computer business that I intend to keep running Windows 7. Neither was set to reserve the Windows 10 upgrade. In fact we hid the update that brought the invitation screen up. Yet, one of them was discovered to have a drive image 6-GB larger than the week before, Deleting the $Windows folders I found will simply invite MS to re-download the install folders again. It apparently can't be stopped once they start sending it to you. I tried to unreserve it, but couldn't since it hadn't been reserved in the first place. This sucks a bit and is annoying. But is relatively painless.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @12:01PM
And this is why you simply do not run microsoft windows on anything, ever.
They simply can't be trusted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @08:10PM
We have a similar thing, the image downloads and tries to install itself every few hours, but then fails (probably because no copies were reserved and it doesn't have the right permissions or something). The Windows Update log is full of failed install attempts for Upgrade to Windows 10.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday August 08 2015, @10:02PM
What you are gonna have to do is disable WU and use your own WSUS server or something like WSUS Offline. The only PCs I've seen at the shop that haven't been hit by the "Win 10 bug" is my customers using WSUS Offline (have some customers who live in the hills that own SMBs so they uses WSUS Offline at work and then just carry a copy home on a flash every month) while everybody that is using WU seems to get a copy of Win 10 dropped in their $Windows.
I'm personally advising my customers STAY AWAY from Windows 10, its filled with spying by MSFT, its default settings are so bad you might as well just set a cam behind your shoulder and send the vid feed to Redmond, and frankly if you turn off all the spying? Then it has no features to make it any better than Win 7 as all the new features are connected to the spying. If somebody thinks Win 10 is slow? Slap it on an SSD, there ya go, you have a faster system without it making a copy of everything you do and sending it to a corp!
I had high hopes for Win 10, I really did, but at its current form I would argue its the worst version of Windows by far, even worse than Windows 8. At least with Windows 8 you can slap on Classic Shell and make a functional OS without any hassle, but with Win 10 there is just so much deeply embedded spying I have serious doubts there is any way to turn it all off. As I told customers when asked about Windows 10 "With Windows 10 the OS isn't the product, YOUR DATA is the product, Win 10 is just the carrot they are using to trick you to give your data up".
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.