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Enabling Microsoft Update to keep Office 2003, Office XP, and other Microsoft Products Secure and Up-To-Date
Hi Folks – We want to remind everyone that enabling Microsoft Update and keeping your computer up-to-date will give you the best possible experience with Windows. Are you wondering about the difference between Windows Update and Microsoft Update? Windows Read More...
Rollout start and client availability
Hi Folks - Noticed a little confusion from our blog post yesterday regarding the Windows Update Agent Update availability. Last night's blog post was to give you some lead time before we started rolling out and making our standalone WUA update available. Read More...
Windows Live OneCare category coming soon
Updated 10/30/08 : WSUS admins will be seeing a new product category under the Windows Live product family in the future. The new product category will be Windows Live OneCare. Thank you, The MU Team Read More...
Critical Security Update Released Today
Hello, Microsoft has released a critical security update today, 10/23/2008 and made this update available via all update distribution channels. For more information see: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 . Read More...
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...
Early heads-up for Office 2007 SP1 Automatic Update availability
Hi folks; Just wanted to give you an early heads up. Office 2007 SP1 will be available to Automatic Update in mid-June. For all the details, see the Office Sustained Engineering Blog post here. Thanks! The MU Team Read More...
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 availability update
IT Pros & WSUS admins, We are excited about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and the benefits it provides. We made all 36 languages of SP1 available on Windows Update earlier this week, and we’re planning to begin automatic distribution of SP1 in English, 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...
Vista SP1
Hi all, Today we made Windows Vista SP1 available for Windows Vista systems in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. What does this mean for you? Well, here are some details of what you can expect: Windows Update Users (or those of you who manage 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...
Windows Vista reliability & performance update preview release available today
Today we have released an update preview release for Windows Vista on the Microsoft Download Center. Today's update release preview is targeted toward improving reliability and performance in Windows Vista. The Windows Serviceability Team is releasing Read More...
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