November 2008 - Posts
Mike Johnson , a Senior Support Escalation Engineer for WSUS, recently sent me some interesting info on the detection logic in MS08-052 and why it may be a little confusing. If you noticed that MS08-052 superseded MS08-040 , but that MS08-052 is
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I know I've touched on this before thanks to WSUS Senior Support Engineer Ellis George , but throttling downloads continues to be a popular discussion topic so I thought I'd add to it a little using some tips from Joe Tindale , also a Senior Support Escalation
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Just an FYI that Microsoft is offering a free second chance to pass that Microsoft Certification exam as well as a 25% discount on an additional exam. You better hurry though as you have to sign up by December 31st. ======== Second Shot now
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We had three updated Knowledge Base articles for the week. One is the old familiar 894199 article but the other two are fairly new additions to the list. Links and titles are below: ======== Microsoft Software Update Svcs 894199 - Description of Software
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Over on the MSRC blog they posted on the availability of this months webcast covering the questions regarding November's security bulletins. If you didn't have the chance to attend then check out the webcast below to see what you missed. ========
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Here's a cool tip and a cool tool that was sent to me by Joe Tindale , one of the top Support Escalation Engineers in our WSUS group. If you find that your WSUS clients are not sending status updates back to the server then this is something you'll want
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Just a quick FYI that we have a webcast discussing the November security bulletins tomorrow at 11:00am PST: ======== Language(s): English. Product(s): Security. Audience(s): IT Professional. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, November 12,
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Over on the MSRC blog they have a post about the two bulletins included in the November 2008 bulleting release that came out today: ========= • MS08-068 : Vulnerability in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957097). This has a severity rating
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We had two updated Knowledge Base articles for the week. One is the old familiar 894199 article but the other is a new addition to the list. Links and titles are below: ======== Windows Update 902093 - How to read the Windowsupdate.log file
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Hi everyone, just a quick FYI that if you're signed up for Twitter you can now receive Tweets on all the info I post here as well as some of the other sites I contribute to and monitor. Just follow MSManageability and you'll get them all. So why Twitter?
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Looks like Christopher Budd over on the MSRC blog has another update on MS08-067 for us. Overall not a lot has changed but he does have some interesting info on some of the malware that's been reported surrounding it. If you're curious I have a snippet
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Hey, let's face it, bad luck can strike the best of us, so if you find yourself in a position where your WSUS box is corrupt beyond repair, the regular uninstall isn't working and you have no choice but to do a complete removal and reinstallation then
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We had three updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - two on Microsoft Update and one on WSUS. Links and titles are below: ======== Microsoft Update 949104 - How to obtain the latest version of the Windows Update Agent to help manage updates
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OK, I know this isn't WSUS specific but it was just too cool to let slide under the radar. Today, at TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona, we announced the RTM release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit version 3.2. If you're not familiar
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Over on the MSRC blog Christopher Budd posted a quick update on the latest information around MS08-067 and Microsoft Security Advisory 958963 . They basically report that there's not much new but that they have seen exploit code resulting in code
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