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https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx -- maybe u can try from here and see the same updates manually...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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That's where I get them from. At least the Win10/Server 2016 cumulative updates. I hadn't tried to look up the SQL Server CUs from there, but I'm doing that now. Also - I don't think something like SQL Server Management Studio ever gets posted to that site, as it's not an "update" per se, but rather a full product.
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This is insane.
I just redownloaded SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU5 from the update catalog, rather than the usual MS download site. Even though the filenames are slightly different, the sizes match, and the hashes are identical. Yet if I right-click on both and select Properties, Digital Signatures, select one of the two, and click on details - the file from catalog...* shows it's OK, even though (and I've just re-confirmed) the file from downloads...* is still showing as invalid.
This makes zero sense, given that the file hashes match.
modified 2-Feb-19 8:52am.
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Check your PCs date time and time zone settings.
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As I mentioned, they're all in the same timezone, and time drift between all the machines is within 3 minutes of each other.
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What really pisses me off is when you download something from the MS web site and it won't install because it wasn't from the store!Why put something for download if it won't work?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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That's a new one to me. Got an example?
Oh, and just to add to my original post - I did click that "Unblock" button from all my downloaded files so the "downloaded from the Internet" flag is removed.
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Sure, I downloaded Visual Studio Community edition and Windows complained that it wasn'tMS store validated
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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dandy72 wrote: Where does one even begin to diagnose such a thing?
Following perhaps.
How to troubleshoot app package signature errors - Windows applications | Microsoft Docs[^]
Just a thought based on something that happened years ago to me, are you doing extensive port blocking? Case I had MS changed validation methodology and they were using a port that was blocked so it failed with no indication at all that the blocked port was the problem.
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Good link. Even though none of these are store apps, I'm sure some items apply. I'll take a closer look.
As for port blocking - I don't block any ports beyond whatever defaults Windows firewall is using, and whatever defaults are used by DD-WRT on my router.
That said, I do use Pi-Hole, which re-routes requests for known advertisers to nowhere, but its configuration hasn't changed since before this problem started happening.
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I have a great job and make a good living doing cool things with you.
To keep balance in the force.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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brown-noser...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: brown-noser What color nose does one have when they complain all the time?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: What color nose does one have when they complain all the time?
Given we're talking about a MS product...various shades of deep red, depending on your current blood pressure.
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Reminds me of when I
had a conversation with my boss about my career. I told him I wasn't worried about any promotions because the company discriminated based on color. He asked Why I thought that and I told him, my nose is the wrong color.
I was right, I never got another promotion, but I got a year's severance pay at lay off, so it worked out just fine!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: a year's severance pay at lay off, Nice! I'd take that.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I took it and never looked back.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Just... wow...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So you have an issue with my consultancy?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I do too.
I have my issues with VS and Microsoft in general, but I must be using it way differently then most of the MS haters in this forum, as I really enjoy VS and it helps make a good living for myself, so that I am not like, homeless and crap.
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Slacker007 wrote: I must be using it way differently then most of the MS haters in this forum, That gives me an idea. I'm going to offer Microsoft training to anyone who wants it. You don't have to suffer.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Hopefully Microsoft will take you up on your offer since they definitely need a lot of training. I find a new bug just about every week and this week was no exception.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: I find a new bug just about every week and this week was no exception. Seriously? What are you guys doing? Other than a random glitch I can't remember the last time I saw a bug in any Microsoft product.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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These are bugs with VS2017. Apparently I am very good at finding edge cases. Yesterday's bug was it fails to find a certain function in ComCtrl32.dll. This was annoying because I had written my own function for that functionality and they added one with the same name that did the same thing. My answer was to dig out my old function and adjust its name. Prior to that it wouldn't load resources from compiler DLLs in a static build so that means I have to use dynamic builds and install the compiler's redistributable package. I was not going to require that but since these are captive systems and apps that's not too big a deal. Prior to that, linking with the GetFileVersionInfo API has become completely hosed. This required some real hacks to work around but I had to do something to handle updating the app. I could go on but I will stop there.
I was reporting them but they have ignored the ones I did report except for one they replied to tell me it wasn't a bug. With that one, the behavior in question is by design but happens to be different than in other, related controls. Since then I have stopped wasting my time reporting them.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Yeah, you dont have to edit binary data, clearly!
Look, they only just added the ability to build drivers in VS, so I finally gave up my much used VS 2005 as an editor, though the build was always through a WDK command interface.
And I am damned annoyed that VS doesnt automatically open an unknown format of file in binary. Like it always did!
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