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New Product Family and Product Categories for Microsoft Online Services
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over 3 years ago
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A new product family has been added to your WSUS server – Microsoft Online Services . The Microsoft Online Services product family will include updates for the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant product categories. A new product category...
Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Released to WSUS
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over 3 years ago
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WSUS Team
10
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Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 was released to Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services earlier today, Tuesday, June 28. This service pack includes many interesting improvements and is also a rollup of all fixes that...
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Revision Issue Resolved
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over 3 years ago
by
WSUS Team
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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 issues. We are aware that this latest revision is incorrectly reporting as "Not Installed" for machines that have...
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Revision Issue
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over 3 years ago
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WSUS Team
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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 issues. We are aware that this latest revision is incorrectly reporting as "Not Installed" for machines that have...
MS11-018 Internet Explorer 7.0 Cumulative Security Update (KB2497640) Revised
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over 3 years ago
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WSUS Team
2
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MS11-018 (KB2497640) for Internet Explorer 7.0 has been revised today to correct an error in Microsoft Update logic. The revision corrects an issue that caused the update to incorrectly report that it was already installed on some Windows XP and Windows...
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 updates available on WSUS have been revised
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
WSUS Team
4
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The Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 updates available on WSUS have been revised to ensure that these updates are installed exclusively. This change has been made in response to the issue described in KB975484 . Previously, Service...
New Category for Developer Tools, Runtimes and Redistributables
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
WSUS Team
4
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A new product category will be added to your WSUS server under the Developer Tools, Runtimes and Redistributables family, entitled Visual Studio 2010. You will see this new category when new updates are available for this product. You should sync...
New Category for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
WSUS Team
4
Comments
A new product category will be added to your WSUS server under the Microsoft Application Virtualization family, entitled Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6. The Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 category will allow all classifications of...
New Category and Product Family for Microsoft StreamInsight
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over 3 years ago
by
WSUS Team
3
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We will be adding a new product family to your WSUS server – Microsoft StreamInsight . The Microsoft StreamInsight product family will include updates for all Microsoft StreamInsight products. It will include a variety of update types, e.g. service...
Important Questions regarding MS10-090 (KB2416400) Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update
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over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
6
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Some WSUS administrators have had questions regarding the latest Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update MS10-090 (KB2416400) ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2416400 ), released on Tuesday, December 14. If you are experiencing issues with the...
New Categories Under BizTalk Family
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
8
Comments
HIS 2009 There will be a new product category added to your WSUS server Products and Classifications dialog, under the BizTalk family. The new category will be titled Host Integration Server 2009. The Host Integration Server 2009 category will allow...
New Category under the Bing Family
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over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
9
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There will be a new product category added to your WSUS server Products and Classifications dialog, under the Bing family. The new category will be titled Bing Bar. The Bing Bar category will allow all classifications of updates to be offered to the previous...
New category under Developer Tools, Runtimes, and Redistributables
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
5
Comments
A new product category called Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime will be added under the product family called Developer Tools, Runtimes, and Redistributables. The new category will include updates for the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office...
Best Practice Analyzer for WSUS
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
7
Comments
Greetings WSUS users, Some of you might not know that Windows Server 2008 R2 has released an update that added new Best Practice Rules to various Server Manager roles, including one for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). For more information on...
“Important” drivers will start being targeted to WSUS.
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
4
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WSUS Admins – We would like to notify you of a change you will see starting next week. If your WSUS settings are configured to synchronize the “Drivers” update classification then your server will start syncing drivers designated...
New category under Windows Small Business Server
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
5
Comments
A new product category called Windows Small Business Server 2008 Migration Preparation Tool will be added under the product family called Windows Small Business Server. The new category will include critical updates for Microsoft® Small Business Server...
.NET Framework 4 available soon via WSUS
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
27
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Hi WSUS Admins, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and .NET Framework 4 Client Profile will be made available via Windows Server Update Services. The .NET Framework 4 is Microsoft's comprehensive and consistent programming model for building applications...
New Category and Product Family for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
8
Comments
We will be adding a new product family to your WSUS server – Microsoft Application Virtualization. The Microsoft Application Virtualization product family will include updates for all Microsoft Application Virtualization products. It will include...
New Product Categories for Forefront
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
6
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There will be two new product categories added to your WSUS server under the existing Forefront family. Forefront Security for Exchange Server will be used for updates that apply to Forefront Security for Exchange Server version 10.1 (and later). Forefront...
New Product under Windows for EU Browser Choice Update
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over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
1
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There will be a new product category added to your WSUS server under the existing Windows family titled “EU Browser Choice Update-For Europe Only” to support the release of the EU Browser Choice update (KB976002). The Browser Choice update is a software...
New Product Category for Exchange Server 2010
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
7
Comments
There will be a new product category added to your WSUS server under the existing Exchange family, titled Exchange Server 2010. The Exchange Server 2010 category will allow all classifications of updates to be offered to the Exchange Server 2010 product...
Microsoft Security Essentials anti-malware definitions now available via WSUS
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
20
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WSUS admins, Microsoft Security Essentials antimalware definitions are now available via WSUS. Microsoft Security Essentials is a core antimalware service for consumers and home-based small businesses that Microsoft released in September of 2009. This...
Expired Update KB977724
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
15
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WSUS Admins, Yesterday, March 10, 2010 at 1:00pm Pacific Time, we expired the update KB977724, Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System, released 3/9/10. For more information about this update expiration please refer to the Office Sustained Engineering...
New Antigen category in WSUS
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
WSUS Team
22
Comments
WSUS Admins, A new product family called Antigen will be added to your WSUS server in the next few days. The Antigen product category will include updates, including service packs, optional updates, and critical or security updates, for the Microsoft...
Office 2003 Update Released for RMS issue
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
WSUS Team
51
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Hello WSUS Admins, We just wanted to give you a heads-up that today we published 3 updates released by the Office team to address customer issues opening Office 2003 documents protected with Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS) or Rights...
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