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Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
When reading comprehension is limited to the title.
MS mislabeled the update
Heimdal (apparently a patchmanagement) auto-installed the falsely labeled update.
If OP (this was reported by a Redditor on r/sysadmin) and their company is unable to properly set grace periods for windows updates I can't help them either.
IMHO you are supposed to manually review and release updates either on a WSUS or the management interface of your patching solution.
Not just "Hehe, auto install and see what happens".
And if you do that shit, set a timeout for 14 days at least for uncritical rated updates.
They said they believe it was a mislabeled update. MS didn't respond. Before criticizing others for their reading comprehension, I think you could work on yourself too.
There is a world, and it may be ours, where MS purposefully pushes this out. As the end of the article makes clear, this will be only a minor issue for those with good backup (which they probably all should but they don't), but for those who don't they'll be stuck with the new version and have to pay for the license of it. This is a large benefit to MS while they also get to pretend like it's just a mistake and not having backups makes it your issue, not theirs.
Shouldnt you be able to just downgrade?
Dunno if that works on the server version.
I come to the comments for someone to summarise the article for me.
Reading (the TLDR) without complaining: Fine
Complaining while only reading the comments: Not fine