As a part of the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI), Microsoft is pleased to present an initial set of monthly security updates – originally released on May 8 – in the consortium’s newly established...

Hello, Today we published the May Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page , and the May 2012 Security Bulletin Release Webcast slide deck . During the webcast, we fielded 8 questions on various topics, including bulletins released, deployment...

Hello, Have you ever wondered why bulletins group particular issues together? Or one set of products and not another? Well today Jonathan Ness has posted an insightful Security Research & Defense (SRD) blog discussing some of the nuances and packaging...

During our investigation into the disclosure of confidential data shared with our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) partners, we determined that a member of the MAPP program, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies Co., Ltd., had breached our non-disclosure...

Hello, Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the May security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8. This month’s release includes 7 bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Silverlight...

We are pleased to announce that the WSUS Management Pack (MP) beta for Windows Server 2012 is live and now available to TAP users. This Management Pack is available for you to test with on your Windows Server 2012 beta and can be found at our Connect...

Hello, Today we published the April Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page , and the slide deck presented in the webcast. We fielded 15 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools,...

Author: Yuri Diogenes - Senior Technical Writer Technical Reviewers: Cecilia Cole - Program Manager, Travis Plunk - Software Developer Engineer In our previous post , we demonstrated how to install the WSUS Role on Windows Server “8” using PowerShell...

In case you missed the announcement, looks like we have two new WSUS categories to look forward to: System Center 2012 – App Controller and System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager. The WSUS product team says we’ll see these new categories when new...

Hello, As you know, today is Update Tuesday. Before I go into the bulletin details, however, I wanted to let you know that today we’re notifying customers that Windows XP and Office 2003 will go out of support in April 2014 . We understand that...

Hello, Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the April security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, April 10. This month’s release includes 6 bulletins addressing 11 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft...

Here’s a cool article I found while going through what was new over on our community-driven TechNet Wiki . This one discusses some best practices for WSUS that should ease Microsoft  Forefront Endpoint Protection and Client Security deployments....

The entry window for the first annual BlueHat Prize closed at 11:59pm PDT on April 1. We've been eagerly awaiting a final entry count from the contest organizers, and senior security strategist Katie Moussouris has just posted that tally on the EcoStrat...

Here’s one more article on WSUS that I found over on our TechNet Wiki page today. This one describes and issue where publishing an update larger than 2GB in size will fail: Consider a scenario where the following tasks are performed in WSUS running on...

Here’s another cool WSUS article I found over on our TechNet Wiki page this morning. This one describes and issue where a search for updates returns declined updates on the Windows Server 8 beta: Consider a scenario where the following tasks are performed...

Nearly nine months after we announced the first annual BlueHat Prize competition for innovations in defensive security technologies, we’re just days away from the submission deadline. On the EcoStrat blog today, Senior Security Strategist Katie...

Authors: Travis Plunk , Software Developer Engineer Yuri Diogenes , Senior Technical Writer Technical Reviewers: Cecilia Cole, Program Manager In our previous post , we demonstrated how to install the WSUS Role on the Windows Server “8” Beta using the...

Hello, Today we published the March Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded twelve questions focusing on MS12-020 (aka “the RDP update”). Two additional questions for MS12-022 regarding Microsoft...

On March 15, we became aware of public proof-of-concept code that results in denial of service for the issue addressed by MS12-020 , which we released Tuesday. We continue to watch the threat landscape and we are not aware of public proof-of-concept...

Hello. Today we’re releasing six security bulletins – one Critical-class, four Important and one Moderate – addressing seven issues in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Expression Design. We recommend that customers focus on MS12...

Hello. Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the March security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13. This month’s release includes six bulletins addressing seven vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Visual...

Just a quick FYI on an article over on our TechNet Wiki regarding how WSUS and Cluster-Aware Updating are affected by Windows Server 8 Beta updates: There are two known issues with Windows Server "8" Beta update process: Windows 8 Beta Updates...

Author: Yuri Diogenes, Senior Technical Writer Technical Reviewers: Travis Plunk, Software Developer Engineer Cecilia Cole, Program Manager J.C. Hornbeck, Knowledge Engineer Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is now built in to the Windows Server 8...

A new product category will be added to your WSUS server under the Forefront family, entitled Forefront Identity Manager 2010. You will see this new category when new updates are available for this product. We encourage you to sync this new category if...

Hello, Today we published the February Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded ten questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. Many of the questions...