WU: manual updates installed automatically

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We have several servers at our site, most of which are 2003 but we also have a few 2000 servers. All of our servers are set to download updates from our WSUS server and notify for install. One of our 2000 servers downloaded updates a few weeks ago after they were approved. We never installed them, but then yesterday all of a sudden we were getting prompts to restart the server. I went through the event logs and yesterday morning at about 8.30, the updates were automatically installed. As far as I remembered, there would always be a log event saying that the installations were strted by <USERNAME>. But on this server, there's none. just logs to say that each update was installed successfully and then one to say a restart was required.

has anybody seen this behaviour before or does anyone have any ideas why this might have happened - as it seems to me that the updates were not installed by manual intervention

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[AndrewTait]

There are some updates just recently, (I cannot remember exactly which ones) that Microsoft insist be installed, even if they are set to Manual in WSUS.

There has been a whole load of complaints about this, as it goes against microsofts policies and the reason for having WSUS.

Could these updates be some of the ones you have seen installed?

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