So, the machine that I previously ranted a little about in another thread is back in the news. The new weirdness is still related to Windows Update, but on the not-Insider stream this time. (Yes, I learned my lesson, thanks, why are you asking?)
So W11 23H2 is finally out, and in its infinitessimal wisdom, Windows Update won't let me have the update, and it won't tell me why not.
Oh, there's a link to a page that supposedly gives information about why the update is blocked, but all it says is that there is a "safeguard hold" on my machine. What is the problem that has caused this safeguard hold?
Well, here's the information that Microsoft has revealed to me:
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Yup, that's it. I have at least one safeguard hold on my machine, and Microsoft won't tell me what it is / they are. (If they told me, I could look to see if I could remedy the problem, but apparently it's something fairly specific to my machine (my RTX 2080 Ti? the X299 chipset? my Wacom Intuos Art? my four HDDs configured in a striped storage space? who knows?) or to a group of machines like it. (Yes, I know, there aren't going to be many machines out there truly like mine...)
But they won't tell me. They won't even say "there's a problem with Device X, and we're working with the manufacturer to eliminate the problem"...