December 2008 - Posts
Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'm doing the same. I'm going to be out until January 5th so if the posts start to dry up then that's probably why, although
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The post below was something I submitted to my SMSandMOM blog but I thought you might also like to see it since it'll help you make any kind of update you wanted to make permanent on a SteadyState PC. ----- We've received a couple calls on this so I thought
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Just an FYI that we're releasing an out-of-band security bulletin to address 961051 tomorrow at 10:00am PST: ======== Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 16, 2008 Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 17, 2008
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Here's another issue you may want to be aware of if you're still using the old SUSFP scan engine to detect updates. This one is from Clifton Hughes in our Las Colinas, Texas office: ======== Issue: In SMS 2003, if you are using SUSFP you may experience
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Just an FYI in case you missed it but last Friday we updated some of the information surrounding 964051 with more on what we know about it as well as some of the workarounds. The updated official release notes are here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961051.mspx
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Just an FYI that we just released a new advisory for an IE related issue. The intro and a link are below: ======== Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Our investigation so far
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Now there's a question I'm not completely unfamiliar with. And for good reason, as this is an important update that includes a bunch of great fixes . Unfortunately, if you're looking for a concrete date I still don't have anything for you,
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Looks like the December 2008 monthly security bulletins are out and the new ones include: MS08-070 : Vulnerabilities in Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Extended Files (ActiveX Controls) Could Allow Remote Code Execution (932349) which is rated “Critical” MS08-071
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Just a quick FYI on the security bulletins scheduled to release next week: ======== Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 4, 2008 Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 9, 2008 This is an advance notification of
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Here's a cool tip that was sent to me by Joao Madureira, a Support Escalation Engineer in our WSUS group. If you want to use a self-signed cert in IIS7 for your WSUS clients then you'll want to take a look at this one: ======== Issue: After installing
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Here's a great tip on an issue you may run into if your using WSUS and ConfigMgr 2007 for updates and defining settings via a Group Policy. This one comes from Anjana Kaku Tyagi, a Support Engineer in our Manageability group: ======== Issue: While
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Sorry for the delay in posting the new KB's but I took a couple days for Thanksgiving and I'm just now getting caught back up. For the week of 11-16 through 11-22 we had one updated Knowledge Base article and it's our old familiar KB on SUS changes
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