Please join us for a high level discussion into Microsoft software investments designed to cover most of the major product lines.  This will be a 35,000 foot view into the following areas: Windows Family Virtualization Office System Unified Communications...

Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here.  Here on the WSUS support team we occasionally run into an issue where all of the client machines at a customer site suddenly and unexpectedly start accessing the Microsoft Update site and downloading all available...

Hello, Today we published the January Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded nine questions on various topics during the webcast , including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two...

Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing seven security bulletins, one of which is rated Critical in severity, with the remaining six classified as Important. These bulletins...

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

Hello, Today we published the December 2011 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 41 questions on the subject of MS11-100 . There were four questions during the webcast that we were unable to answer and we...

Hosts: Jonathan Ness, Security Development Manager, MSRC Pete Voss, Sr. Response Communications Manager, Trustworthy Computing Website: TechNet/Security Chat Topic: December 2011 Out-Of-Band Security Bulletin Release Date: Thursday, December...

Hello, Today we released Security Update MS11-100 to address the issue described in Security Advisory 2659883 . The security update has a severity rating of Critical and resolves a publicly disclosed remote unauthenticated Denial of Service issue...

Hello, Today we’re providing advance notification for an out-of-band security update to address the publicly disclosed issue described in Security Advisory 2659883 . The release is scheduled for tomorrow, December 29, at approximately 10 a.m...

Hello, Today we published Security Advisory 2659883 to provide a workaround to help protect ASP.NET customers from a publicly disclosed vulnerability that affects various Web platforms industry-wide. We are not aware of any attacks using this vulnerability...

Hello, Today we published the December Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded six questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. For more details...

Hosts: Jonathan Ness, Security Development Manager, MSRC Jerry Bryant, Group Manager, Trustworthy Computing Communications Website: TechNet/Security Chat Topic: December 2011 Security Bulletin Release Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Q:...

Here’s a heads up on another great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki.  This one was written by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes and talks about the supportability (or lack thereof) of HTTPS Inspection of the traffic between Microsoft Update and...

Hi everyone – Mike Reavey here. Today, we’re releasing our December set of security updates. As we do every month, we're providing a heads-up on what’s coming in this month’s release as well as offering links to more information...

Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing 13 security bulletins, three of which are rated Critical in severity, and 10 Important. These bulletins will increase protection by addressing...

Hello all. Before we look at next week’s bulletin release, we’d like to point out an update to our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) that should provide customers with greater transparency as to how MAPP partners use the information...

Here’s a heads up on another great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes. This one walks you through publishing Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS) 3 SP2 using Forefront TMG 2010 SP2: ===== This...

Hi everyone, As a follow-up to Friday’s blog post , today we released Security Advisory 2641690 to notify customers that we revoked the trust of DigiCert Sdn.Bhd in an update that moves two Intermediate Certificate Authorities (CA) certificates...

Hello, On this November Update Tuesday, we’re recapping the BlueHat conference , which Microsoft hosted in Redmond last week. We are also releasing four security updates, so please read on for details. Microsoft hosted its 11th installment...

Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 2639568 to provide customer guidance for the Windows kernel issue related to the Duqu malware. I would like to provide you information on how to protect your system(s), how we are addressing the issue...

Hi everyone, This post is to notify customers that Microsoft will revoke trust in an Intermediate Certificate Authority, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd. (Digicert Malaysia) in an update to be released through Windows Update. DigiCert Sdn. Bhd is a Malaysian...

Hello, As we do each month, we're providing advance notification on the release of four security bulletins, one Critical, two Important, and one Moderate, to address four CVEs in Windows. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for the second...

Here’s a heads up on another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes. This one walks you through deploying Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS) 3 SP2 in a DMZ protected by Forefront TMG 2010 SP2...

Hello, Today we published the October Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded eight questions across all bulletins. There was one question that we were unable to answer during the webcast due to time constraints, and we...

Hello, On this October Update Tuesday, we are releasing the 11th volume of the Security Intelligence Report, SIRv11, which puts zero-day vulnerabilities into context against other global threats. We are also releasing eight security updates so please...