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Announcing New Office Sustained Engineering Blog for all Office update information
Hi all, If you use Microsoft Office, a great new resource has recently come online to help you understand how Office updates work. The Office Sustained Engineering blog features release announcements, known issues, explanations of update behavior, and Read More...
Hyper-V RC availability on Windows Update April 8th
Good afternoon folks! As you may know, Hyper-V Release Candidate (RC) was made available on March 19th via the Microsoft Download Center . Tomorrow, we are making the RC package available as an Optional Update via Windows Update for all Windows Server Read More...
Windows Vista SP1 Prerequisite Releases
Hi all, This week we're releasing two more prerequisites for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 that will be coming later this quarter. We wanted to let you know about them because they are both marked as Important updates (and they’re a little different than Read More...
New Product Family Expression coming Tuesday, 1/22/08!
Next Tuesday, 1/22/08, we are adding a new product family to your WSUS server - Expression . The Expression product family will include updates for all Expression products, including service packs, optional updates, and critical or security updates. For Read More...
But wait.......there's more.... Another new product family, Silverlight coming Tuesday, 1/22/08 !
We are also excited to announce a new product named Silverlight , is being made available to Microsoft Update site and WSUS customers Tuesday, January 22nd! The Silverlight product family will include installers and updates for the Silverlight browser Read More...
Another note regarding KB935509...
We had a small number of early customer reports, that in some cases, this update (KB935509) was being offered for installation on all Windows Vista editions vs. just Ultimate and Enterprise. A quick adjustment of the applicability logic was released shortly Read More...
Note regarding KB935509...
Hi all, Just dropping a quick line to let you know about one of the updates we're releasing this week to Windows Update (it's a little different than usual). The update, KB935509, is a prerequisite to Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which will be coming Read More...
WSUS admins... additional updates from Windows Live (Photo Gallery and Toolbar)
Today, Windows Live will release two additional critical updates: 1. Update for Windows Live Photo Gallery (KB 944990) 2. Update For Windows Live Toolbar (KB 944786) Update for Windows Live Photo Gallery (KB 944990) This critical update will apply to Read More...
WSUS Admins…Windows Live BETA applications are being updated to their released (RTM) versions
Today Windows Live will ship two updates: 1. Update for Windows Live Mail (KB 944990) 2. Update for Windows Live Writer (KB 944990) These updates will apply to all Windows Live Mail Beta and Windows Live Writer Beta users. The RTM version of this software Read More...
WSUS Admins…New Product Categories appearing in WSUS
A new product family called Microsoft HealthVault is being added. Microsoft HealthVault enables consumers to store health and fitness information for themselves and their family in a single place in the cloud, and manage their wellness in new ways with Read More...
How Windows Update Keeps Itself Up-to-Date
There have been some questions raised about how we service the Windows Update components and concerns expressed about software installing silently. I want to clarify the issue so that everyone can better understand why the self-updating of Windows Update Read More...
WSUS Admins - New and modified categories for the Windows Live product family
In early September 2007, you will see eight new / modified product categories in the Windows Live family of products. Following are the categories - 1. Windows Live contains updates/upgrades for all Windows Live programs. All Windows Live programs are Read More...
WSUS Admins - Windows Live Mail Category Rename
Starting 8/17, we are renaming the Windows Live Mail category (under the Windows Live product family) to Mail Installation and Upgrades. The Mail Installation and Upgrades category contains installation and upgrade files for an e-mail program that allows Read More...
The Microsoft Update Catalog v1 is Live!
I am excited to announce that we have released version 1.0 of the Microsoft Update Catalog ! With the new Catalog, you can search for updates available through the Microsoft Update service and download them to your machine (regardless of whether the update Read More...
WSUS and Windows Server 2003 Sp2
WSUS admins… a quick note regarding the delivery of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. We have discovered that in some instances Windows Server 2003 SP2 fails to install automatically. While we investigate further, we have changed the behavior of the Read More...
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