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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.

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This would happen if you just let Windows Update do its thing. As is fine on client machines usually for security.

On Azure it is the default even https://imgur.com/a/RvEx3yn

In this case at least it was Microsofts fault

No, it wasn't. This failure happened at the side of the user - their central policy configuration or so. Microsoft pushed the update correctly.

It sounds like the 3rd party tool did what MS told it to do.

Nope, my servers are just fine.

Did we read the same article? Microsoft labeled an update as "security updates" when it was in fact an upgrade to Windows Server 2025

Did they say they wouldn't?

In the absence of Heimdall 2022 Server doesn't install it along with other security updates.

Wouldn't what?

Also given other peoples experiences in this comment section, that doesn't seem to be true.

I can't find anyone without Heimdall who would claim it happened to them. For all we know this is 100% Heimdall bug.

Yes. For automation software it's fully updated (not: upgraded) target system definition.

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