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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi WSUS Admins, There is a new product category being added to the WSUS Products and Classifications dialog under the product family “Expression”. The new product category is for Expression Web 3. The Expression Web 3 product category will include...

Hello WSUS admins, Here’s some additional information on the recently announced Platform Update for Windows Vista and Platform Update for Windows Server 2008. These two updates are part of a broader set of updates being offered to improve the interoperability...

There will be a new product category added to your WSUS server Products and Classifications dialog under the existing System Center Virtual Machine Manager family, titled Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. This product provides a...

Want to test out and use new bits for Microsoft’s new hosted management service? A good friend to the Group Policy team is the System Center Online team, who announced the first version of their product at MMS 2009 . They are looking for qualified...

Hello folks, Just some product family and product name housekeeping we want to keep you updated on. Very soon, the "Visual Studio" product family will be renamed to "Developer Tools, Runtimes, and Redistributables". The reason for the change is to...

The WSUS Product Team is proud to announce that WSUS 3.0 SP2 is now available! Get it today! We recommend installing SP2 on all existing and new installations of WSUS. WSUS 3.0 SP2 supports the latest operating systems including Windows Server®...

Hi Folks – We have investigated reports that the KB973869 (MS09-037) update is re-offered through Automatic Updates and Windows Update on some x64 systems, after it has already been installed. We have identified some limited scenarios where this is occurring...

Hi WSUS Admins, We are planning on releasing two updates related to the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Both of these address customer feedback problems that have been reported back to us. The first is for the .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 that...

Hello WSUS Admins, Shortly after the release of our previously announced update for Forefront Client Security, we received reports of a previously released update for FCS (Client Update for Microsoft Forefront Client Security (1.0.1703.0)) constantly...

Microsoft is releasing an update to the Forefront Client Security (FCS) v1 antimalware client on Thursday, June 18 th . This update includes the following changes: Improvements to the FCS kernel-mode driver. A change in how the component...

Hello WSUS Admins, There are 2 new product categories being added to the WSUS Products and Classifications dialog, both under the product family “Office Communicator Server and Office Communicator”. The two new categories are: Office Communications...

I am very pleased to announce that WSUS 3.0 SP2 RC will be available to the general public today, May 26 , via the Connect Site . All you have to do is sign in to your Connect account or sign up now in order to participate in the RC program. This program...