Patch Tuesday Status

 

All catalogs were released at 10am today! (Yes including the one for ITMU!) 

 

Here are some highlights for this month’s release:

 

·         9 new security bulletins

·         1 re-release (MS07-038) (detection logic only, no binary updates)

o    Customers that have already deployed this update will not be required to re-deploy it

·         All updates are covered by the supported scan tools.

 

Please review the bulletin details here: (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-aug.mspx)

 

Other interesting Non Security Updates in the ITMU cab include:

 

·          SMS 2003 SP3 (For Admin Console Upgrades only)

 

 

There is also a known issue with Windows 2000 clients that are being scanned with ITMU. This issue and resolution are documented in:

KB941440: The scan process fails when the SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates tries to scan Microsoft Windows 2000-based SMS 2003 Client computers for compliance (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941440)