Contributed By: Scott Korman
You will have noticed early in December that a SUS Server synchronisation contained no updates.

It appears that the 'iuident.cab' file was updated, which contains a new 'iuident.txt' file dated 30-Nov-2003.

On SUS Server: "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\"
On client: "C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate\V4\"

There is no approval process for the file, so it will be downloaded by each client at the next check-in cycle.

The change appears to have removed the reference to the 'akamai.net' web cache servers, which was the solution implemented to minimize the disruption caused by the Blaster worm.


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Pre-synchronization - iuident.txt dated 17-Aug-2003

[IUServerCache]
Server1="https://a248.e.akamai.net/v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/getmanifest.asp"
Server2="https://a248.e.akamai.net/v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/consumerdrivers/getmanifest.asp"

QUOTE
Post-synchronization - iuident.txt dated 30-Nov-2003

[IUServerCache]
Server1="https://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/getmanifest.asp"
Server2="https://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/consumerdrivers/getmanifest.asp"

This highlights the lack of information contained in the content notification emails send out by Microsoft.