In this case, based on comments there, new server is not licensed anymore and not activated after the upgrade. Making this problem much worse, as options are either purchasing new licenses or reinstalling everything.
Edit: it's not clear to me how much responsibility lies with 3rd party update management tool and how much with Microsoft. This update doesn't seem to automatically run by itself, but it might be misclassified so that these tools think it's a security update and just deploy like any other patch.
Some of the Windows 10 upgrades were unlicensed and not activated, too. They worked for 30 days or so, then asked for activation and a serial key. Some worked longer than that and then deactivated themselves. It was chaos for the end users, but Microsoft spent money on buying new serial keys and licenses.
I have the most stable and secure version of Windows in my personal laptop, perfectly safe sleeping in its partition until I boot it every few months to install updates.
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 agree that this looks like a 3rd party issue. They claimed that KB5044284 was the update, but others have noted that after installing that update, they had the option to upgrade to 2025 but it didn't happen automatically - seems the 3rd party RMM somehow pushed a command to start the upgrade.
Honestly, I guess since it's an SMB it might make sense that they aren't able to test all patches before applying them in production, but you'd hope they'd delay the installation for a few days to let others catch major issues.
Probably the third-party solution offers functionality not available from Microsoft, for example integrating with other management software they may have, enabling automated blue-green scheme for applying updates, so they can accurately measure the impact of updates for example.
> 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
It was more he had a grudge of his because I would always push back his ideas. This made it a hostile environment as I always had to ensure I cover my arse in all area's. This was his "gotcha!" moment.
He wanted to put me on-call with no pay increase, wanted eight Cassandra servers for no reason. All this other crap because he had herd buzz words.
They were trying to brown nose the position of the CTO as at the time the company had none.
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.
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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[ 795 ms ] story [ 2445 ms ] threadEdit: it's not clear to me how much responsibility lies with 3rd party update management tool and how much with Microsoft. This update doesn't seem to automatically run by itself, but it might be misclassified so that these tools think it's a security update and just deploy like any other patch.
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!
Honestly, I guess since it's an SMB it might make sense that they aren't able to test all patches before applying them in production, but you'd hope they'd delay the installation for a few days to let others catch major issues.
Not a Windows version and unfamiliar with how it works.
>> 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 ?
I hated the boss of DevOps team and they hated me. Greatest thing to ever happen to me.
https://serverfault.com/questions/471161/history-of-the-etc-...
He wanted to put me on-call with no pay increase, wanted eight Cassandra servers for no reason. All this other crap because he had herd buzz words.
They were trying to brown nose the position of the CTO as at the time the company had none.
Shiite company that collapsed six months later.
It would be a good horror story for halloween, but that was last week…
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.
In the absence of Heimdall 2022 Server doesn't install it along with other security updates.
Also given other peoples experiences in this comment section, that doesn't seem to be true.
On Azure it is the default even https://imgur.com/a/RvEx3yn
for now. /s
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…
</sarcasm>