It’s ‘patch Wednesday’ here down-under today: today Microsoft is releasing 14 security bulletins, addressing 34 vulnerabilities. Eight of those bulletins have a Critical severity rating, and we consider four of those to be high-priority deployments: MS10...

This morning Microsoft released a critical Out Of Band security update. This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Shell. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if the icon of a specially crafted shortcut...

Have you been looking for the Office 2010 tool to assess compatibility of your existing Microsoft Office files and macros?  Early this morning, we released the Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) 2010 which will help you assess and migrate your...

Earlier today, the Hyper-V team released several Hyper-V updates as a single update package via Windows Update. These updates have been publicly available for some time now, but now they are available packaged together as a single roll-up for the convenience...

If you’re in Auckland this Sunday, come along and check out the latest Microsoft technologies from MS Communities It’s happening Sunday 29 August from 930am till 530PM at the University of Auckland Business School. This is a free event so please Register...

Microsoft TechNet UNPLUGGED Update - Aug 2010 TechNet UNPLUGGED sessions in August focusing on what the Cloud means to you as an IT Manager or IT Professional. The cloud has been called the next logical step in business computing—but there is still a...