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  • Blog Post: Silverlight now available

    WSUS Team
    Hi WSUS Admins: Just a friendly reminder, the latest Silverlight update rollup was released today. So if you have Silverlight deployed in your environment make sure you validate and approve it to continue Silverlight’s serviceability in your managed environment. If you haven’t deployed Silverlight...
    on 21 Oct 2008

  • Blog Post: Where to check out the WSUS 3.0 community

    WSUS Team
    Please check out the WSUS 3.0 community for great peer, MVP, and subject matter expert support and, update management idea exchanges. Some locations inlcude: Newsgroups: Microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services Other great community sources of WSUS info: http://windowsconnected.com/blogs...
    on 2 May 2007

  • Blog Post: WSUS and Office 2007 news

    WSUS Team
    Hey WSUS Admins - Happy New Year!! Hope you all had great holidays and good times with friends and family throughout!! As many of you experienced, or probably saw on the news, Seattle was an absolute weather war-zone right before Christmas , with record breaking rains and winds. After November's rains...
    on 5 Jan 2007

  • Blog Post: WDS update revision follow - up

    WSUS Team
    Hi Folks - I wanted to get back to you with more information and guidance around the Windows Desktop Search (WDS) issue and the results of our investigation today. As you know, Windows Desktop Search was published last February 07, as an optional update that was only applicable to systems which...
    on 26 Oct 2007

  • Blog Post: New Category for Microsoft Expression Product Family

    WSUS Team
    In the next few weeks, we are adding a new category to your WSUS server – Expression Media 2 . The category belongs to the Microsoft Expression product family. The category will include updates for Expression Media 2, including service packs, optional updates, and critical or security updates. For additional...
    on 18 Sep 2008

  • Blog Post: New Product Category CAPICOM under the "SDK Components" product family

    WSUS Team
    CAPICOM is an ActiveX control, scriptable interface, and COM object redistributed by Microsoft, 3rd party applications, and web sites. More information about the functionality offered through CAPICOM is available on MSDN in the whitepaper "About CAPICOM". As CAPICOM can be redistributed by 3rd party...
    on 9 May 2007

  • Blog Post: WSUS 3.0 SP1 is now RTM!!!

    WSUS Team
    Dear WSUS users, I am very excited to announce the release of WSUS 3.0 SP1, now live and ready for download! This is a significant release that represents a huge milestone for all involved and we thank you greatly for your feedback and support throughout the life cycle of this project. WSUS...
    on 8 Feb 2008

  • Blog Post: Vista SP1 for WSUS 3.0 servers is coming

    WSUS Team
    Good afternoon folks! I just wanted to let you know that we are planning on providing some guidance for the community next week to coincide with the availability of Vista SP1 to WSUS, please check back next week for more information, thank you! Cecilia Cole | WSUS Program Manager
    on 20 Mar 2008

  • Blog Post: Intelligent Message Filter for Exchange Server 2003: Supersedence release model

    WSUS Team
    Starting today, the WSUS administrator will notice that the IMF Filters now supersede each other instead of direct expiration of every update. A review of the process over the last couple of months allowed us to identify that the expiration release model just wasn't working. The new model allows a better...
    on 7 Dec 2006

  • Blog Post: Update on WUA Srvhost.exe, high CPU consumption and memory consumption issue

    WSUS Team
    Wanted to let you all know there is a revised fix now available for the issue related to the srvhost.exe and 100% CPU utilization. This issue is described in KB916089 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089/en-us ), and the revised fix is currently only available from Microsoft Product Support Services...
    on 18 Jan 2007

  • Blog Post: WSUS 3 RC public beta program winding down soon

    WSUS Team
    Hi Folks - Just a post to our many RC beta partners dilligently testing WSUS v3 RC in our public program. First off, many, many thanks for the really impressive testing and awesome feedback you've provided so far on the WSUS 3 RC release. The quality and volume of new bugs found, and validation...
    on 6 Apr 2007

  • Blog Post: New detection logic for Office 2007 updates released May 8th

    WSUS Team
    There has been a re-release of the Office 2007 security and non –security updates released May 8 th . The re-release has changed the detection logic however none of the actual binaries in the updates have been modified. Reapproval will not impact any clients with the initial approved updates installed...
    on 18 May 2007

  • Blog Post: Internal Repro results on svchost/msi issue

    WSUS Team
    Hi - Touching base back on our testing results in reproducing the "svchost/msi issue" system hang, lock and/or unresponsive behaivor reports. After installing the new 3.0 client, and the MSI fix (KB927891) referenced in yesterdays' post, we tested scan times, system responsiveness and CPU utilization...
    on 16 May 2007

  • Blog Post: Information on new update for DST coming to DLC & WSUS

    WSUS Team
    O n 9 February 2007 we released a Windows Time Zone Update Rollup, KB 931836 to the Download Center. This update rollup replaces KB 928388 (global time zone update) and KB 929120 (W. Australia Time Zone Update). It includes all the time zone changes in the previously released time zone updates and additional...
    on 10 Feb 2007

  • Blog Post: Hyper-V RC available on Windows Update

    WSUS Team
    Folks, Today, April 8, the Windows Update team is making the Hyper-V Release Candidate package available as an "Optional Update" via Windows Update for all Windows Server 2008 SKUs. It will also be published as an "Optional Update" to WSUS. For more detailed instructions, please refer to How to Install...
    on 8 Apr 2008

  • Blog Post: Intelligent Message Filter for Exchange Server 2003: Release cycle begins on the 17th of this month

    WSUS Team
    I thought I blogged about this already but I failed on that. So here it is. Exchange 2003 IMF updates where paused for the month of December and will restart on the 17th of this month. The last published is 11/30/2006 Scott Roberts (Exchange SE)
    on 7 Jan 2007

  • Blog Post: New MSXML Categories will appear in WSUS today

    WSUS Team
    WSUS Admins: In response to confusion reqarding MSXML product family categories from MS06-061, released on October 10th, today you will see a new product family called "Microsoft Core XML Services" in your WSUS product synchronization options dialog. In this new product family you will see Microsoft...
    on 10 Nov 2006

  • Blog Post: DST Timezone KB929120 & KB928338 updates explanation for WSUS admins

    WSUS Team
    Hi Folks, I know there has been some confusion around the DST updates KB928338 and KB929120. Hopefully this will help. Yesterday, Dec 12 we released two time zone updates to WU, MU, WSUS and the catalog. The first of these updates, KB 928388, addresses 30 time zone changes for Windows Operating Systems...
    on 14 Dec 2006

  • Blog Post: The Microsoft Update Catalog Beta also has WSUS 3.0 releases (and 927891)

    WSUS Team
    WSUS 3.0 is also available via the Beta Microsoft Update Catalog! The new beta MU Catalog provides access to all content in the Microsoft Update service, and also includes integration with WSUS 3.0. This will enable you to import drivers, generally distributed hotfix releases (like 927891), and...
    on 23 May 2007

  • Blog Post: Windows Vista SP1 available to WSUS

    WSUS Team
    Hi everyone, Quick update on Windows Vista SP1’s availability to WSUS. As I mentioned previously, we are planning on making the full standalone version of the service pack directly available to WSUS shortly (it’s been available for the last couple months in the MU catalog). Before we do so, we...
    on 5 Jun 2008

  • Blog Post: Windows Defender Update clarification on KB932135

    WSUS Team
    Hi Folks – Ive heard some confusion on the handling of the update approval for MS07-010 / KB932135 released last Tuesday, Feb 12 th . For the few of you who subscribe to Windows Defender Definition Updates but DON’T have your auto approvals set up for these, just a reminder you’ll want to make...
    on 23 Feb 2007

  • Blog Post: The 2007 Office System Service Pack 2 coming to WSUS in April

    WSUS Team
    Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Office System will be made available to Windows Server Update Services in April, classified as a service pack. Service Pack 2 includes some significant work, including: built-in ability to save as ODF & PDF formats, improvements to Outlook’s performance and calendar reliability...
    on 10 Apr 2009

  • Blog Post: Critical Security Update released today

    WSUS Team
    WSUS Admins: Please ensure you have synched your WSUS servers and deployed the critical security update released today, 10/23/2008 to your environments. For more information see: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 .
    on 23 Oct 2008

  • Blog Post: New alpha Catalog site available with WSUS 3.0 RC

    WSUS Team
    Want another cool reason to check out the WSUS 3.0 Release Candidate now in public beta, (available after registration from http://connect.microsoft.com )? Well here's one:) The Microsoft Update Catalog Site Alpha is now ready and integrated wtih the WSUS RC server release! The Catalog site integration...
    on 2 Mar 2007

  • Blog Post: WDS revision update, expanded applicability rules, auto-approve revisions

    WSUS Team
    Some customers have reported that update package for KB917013 was being deployed to WSUS clients without having approved the update for installation on their WSUS servers. The original update release, released February 2007 as an optional update, was only applicable on systems which had a version of...
    on 25 Oct 2007