This is a rare post, straight from the trenches of Windows XP activation de-activation activism.
In the never-ending battle of anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better, fought bare-knuckled between Microsoft’s finest anti-piracy gang, and those who seek to circumvent their attempts to force ‘product activation’ on the masses, another blow has been struck against Microsoft.
After months of planning and scheming, Microsoft [...]

I ran into this problem today when updating a client’s server to the latest version of Plesk.
Did you know that upgrading to >7.5.2 disables the ‘Updater’ button in the ‘Server’ section of Plesk?
I didn’t, but after a bit of head-scratching I found the ‘fix’. (NOTE: Not really a ‘fix’ as nothing was really broken - [...]