Silverlight: 2 - WSUS - Windows Server 2008 Core

Question

2 Months ago I reported that Silverlight was being offered by WSUS for Server Core and on the 15th of this month I added a comment to the same thread to ensure that this would not be the case when Silverlight 2 KB 957938 gets pushed through WSUS.
Surprise! (Or not :P) - Silverlight 2 is being offered by WSUS to Server 2008 Core.
And what the following the statement in KB957938 means is anyone's guess:-
Silverlight 2 contains an auto-updating mechanism. By default, this mechanism is disabled in the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) package.
Cheers,
Stephen Edgar

Answer 1

Thanks Andrew,
I lay the blame directly with the WSUS team as it is more than just the Silverlight team, I see 'many' issues with WSUS be it Exchange Server, SQL, Visual Studio, Windows Live and many other updates that simply fail any form of QA process and are deployed to WSUS without proper testing. It typically is language specific, i.e. only 'English Updates' that can blow out from 60MB to 1.3GB and the fact that Silverlight is still being thrown to Server Core as an update is sad that the WSUS team have not worked out a solution for this, some may call this a bug, some may say it is a slight oversight, I say it is a lack of Quality Assurance Testing on Microsoft's part.
With Silverlight 3 just announced at MIX09 the issue now will be when Silverlight 3 first gets published to WSUS if the products it applies to actually fixes this issue and does not report that it is needed for 'Server Core' then the previous Silverlight 2 updates will NOT be superseeded by this update for Server Core and Server Core will continue to report that it needs the Silverlight 2 updates until an update to WSUS is released that 'supersedes' the Silverlight 2 update requirements for Server Core.
So the WSUS team need to release a hotfix for the WSUS, Server Core and Silverlight issue in advance to even thinking about publishing Silverlight 3 to WSUS otherwise Server Core will continue wanting the SL2 updates OR it will report that Server Core needs the SL3 update.Cheers,
Stephen Edgar