I think the problem was that prior to the update there were no required IE7 checks for Vista, but there where for XP. I've not looked at the checks exactly but that is my guess. With IE8 installed, there would be no IE7 updates installed.
Michael Stanclift Network Analyst Rockhurst University http://help.rockhurst.edu<http://help.rockhurst.edu/> (816) 501-4231 From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Joyce Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IE 8 failing remediation You are correct - However there is something in yesterday's Microsoft Patches that has caused the problems from what we have determined. We had a RU TAC person with IE8 who had been working until today. He patched last night and was kicked off clean access at 4AM this morning todd Radford University On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Speight, Howard <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If I'm not mistaken, CCA doesn't support Beta software? Same thing happened with IE7. If you're going to allow it you'll have to write a rule for it, but I could be wrong... :) Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 14:55 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: IE 8 failing remediation >From what we have seen IE 8 beta will cause an XP machine to fail but not a >Vista machine. >We've seen problems with it failing the stock check for 7 in our test >environment. The >checks for 6 and 7 are both explicit version numbers (e.g. "starts with 7.0") >which causes >the problem with version 8. We're planning on developing a home brew check for >it once it >nears release. Since we generally don't recommend our end users running beta >software >we've been able to require them to remove it thus far. > Has anyone received reports of problems with Internet Explorer 8 (beta) > failing remediation? -- Todd Joyce [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Pain is the precursor of change
