WSUS lists IE9 on some systems as "Not Applicable"

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in past company had briefly installed ie9 on many of our systems caused problems piece of software have had running ie8 untill last week.  software problems resolved now and approved ie9 our testing group in wsus.  half systems got ie9 install while other half have listed "not applicable" in wsus report.

all of computers in test group meet hardware/os requirements ie9 , thing found in common problems systems had ie9 installed @ point in past(systems not around when first tried launch ie9 installed update fine).  real issue when approve ie9 our user systems, there possibly hundreds had ie9 in past downgraded , expected not pickup update wsus correctly.

i've had hard time finding exact problem far. we trying avoid manually installing on hundreds of users systems like we had problem systems in our test group. best way me go correcting this?

how ie9 installed on systems reporting "not applicable"?

how ie9 uninstalled systems (i.e. reverting ie8) on systems?

without getting deep intricies of detection logic of update package, having update report "not applicable" installed, , uninstalled, indication of incomplete installation. portion of logic thinks product installed, failing detect installed, portion of logic thinks product not installed failing detect not installed. quite manifests in response how product installed, or uninstalled.

lawrence garvin, m.s., mcitp:ea, mcdba, mcsa
product manager, solarwinds
microsoft mvp - software distribution (2005-2012)
mvp profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/lawrence.garvin



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