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The WSUS product team just announced that they released SP1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to our update services: Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 was released to Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services earlier today, Tuesday, June 28. You can get all the details at...

Just a quick heads up that we issued a revision to the WSUS offering for Windows 7 / Window Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on 5/24 to address known installation issues: A revision was made to the WSUS offering for Windows 7 / Window Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on 5/24 to address known installation...

Today as part of our monthly security bulletin release we have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. This first bulletin is rated Important, while the second is rated Critical…. [ MSRC ] J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer The App-V Team...

As part of our usual cycle of monthly security updates, today we're releasing 17 bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server and Exchange. Two of those bulletins carry a Critical rating while 14 are rated Important and 1 is rated Moderate...

It's the second Tuesday of the month which means it's time for our regular cycle of monthly security updates.  Today we're releasing three security bulletins that address 11 vulnerabilities. One of the bulletins has a Critical severity rating whereas the other two are rated as Important: MS10-087...

Looks like the Microsoft Security Response Center has released MS10-070 to WSUS: Today we released out-of-band Security Update MS10-070 through the remainder of our standard distribution channels, including Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services. We have completed our testing of these channels...

Today we provided advance notification to customers that we will release an out-of-band security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 2416728 . The update is scheduled for release tomorrow, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at approximately 10:00 AM PDT. The bulletin has a severity...

Just a quick heads up that today we're releasing our Advance Notification Service (ANS) for the September Security Bulletins that are scheduled for release Tuesday, September 14, 2010.  This month we will be releasing 9 bulletins addressing 13 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Internet Information...

Just a quick FYI that we just published revised detection logic for Microsoft App-V 4.5 Service Pack 2 (SP2) so that WSUS will not offer the App-V 4.5 SP2 update if you do not have Microsoft Application Error Reporting installed on the Microsoft Application Virtualization client. To install Microsoft...

Looks like another patch Tuesday is upon us and the Microsoft Security Response Center blog has a great write up on what to expect this month: Hello all. As part of our usual cycle of monthly updates, today Microsoft is releasing 14 security bulletins, addressing 34 vulnerabilities. Eight of those bulletins...

Looks like the Microsoft Security Response Team announced an update to 2286198: We've just updated Microsoft Security Advisory 2286198 to let customers know that we now have an automated "Fix It" available to implement the workaround we first outlined in our original posting on Friday, July...

Just an FYI on a security bulletin release by the MSRC: Today we released Security Advisory 981374 addressing a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer 8 is not affected by this issue. Customers using Internet Explorer 6 or 7 should upgrade to...

The MSRC folks say that they have revised the installation packages for MS10-015 with new logic that prevents the security update from being installed on systems if certain abnormal conditions exist. Such conditions could be the result of an infection with a computer virus such as the Alureon rootkit...

Just an FYI that yesterday the MSRC released Security Advisory 981169 to address the VBScript issue involving Windows Help files that they blogged about Sunday . To reiterate what they said in that post, they are not aware of any active attacks at this time and the following operating systems are not...

Just an FYI that today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office. With the release of the bulletins for February 2010, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued February...

Looks like the folks at the MSRC just released the February bulletin information through our Advance Notification Service (ANS) . This month we'll be releasing 13 bulletins: Five rated Critical, seven rated Important, and one rated Moderate - addressing 26 vulnerabilities in all. For all the details...

Microsoft is investigating a publicly reported vulnerability in Internet Explorer for customers running Windows XP or who have disabled Internet Explorer Protected Mode. This advisory contains information about which versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable as well as workarounds and mitigations...

This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured...

Yesterday we released Security Advisory 979682 to address an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows kernel, affecting all currently supported versions of 32-bit Windows. 64-bit versions of Windows, including Windows Server 2008 R2, are not affected. The advisory provides customers...

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: January 20, 2010 Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: January 21, 2010 This is an advance notification of one out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on January 21, 2010. The bulletin will be for Internet Explorer...

There's been a lot of news around Security Advisory 979352 so I thought I'd take a minute and give a summary of the major links from the MSRC that have come across my desk since it was released last Thursday.  You all have probably already seen all of these but just in case you haven't, here's where...

Just an FYI on a new KB article that we recently published.  This one contains a cumulative list of content changes that have been made available for WSUS, Windows Update and Microsoft Update that were made on or after January 13, 2009. Administrators can use this list both as a quick reference...

Vulnerability in the Embedded OpenType Font Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (972270) Published: January 12, 2010 This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed content rendered...

This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on January 12, 2010. This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the January bulletin summary on January 12, 2010. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft...

Just an FYI on a new KB article that we recently published. This one discusses an issue where when you install updates by using Windows Update or Microsoft Update, you receive the following error code: 0x737D Additionally, you may receive the following error message: SQL Server Setup cannot...