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Just a heads up but the folks at the MSRC just announced their Advance Notification for the November 2009 Security Bulletin Release: To help customers plan and prioritize for this month’s security updates, we wanted to let you know that we will be releasing
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The folks over on the MSRC blog just announced Advance Notification for the October 2009 Security Bulletin Release: For October we are releasing 13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet
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We had a new WSUS related Knowledge Base article published last week, this one describing an issue where after you disable the "Download express installation files" option in Windows Server Update Services 3.0, client computers may be unable to receive
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Just a heads up that yesterday we released Security Advisory 975497 that provides information about a new, irresponsibly reported vulnerability in SMB 2.0. Our investigation has shown that Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 RC are affected
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This month we released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats: 1. Browser based attacks where websites hosting malicious code attempt to compromise visitors. This includes MS09-045
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In case you missed the big news over on the IEBlog , on Tuesday they announced that they have made IE8 available via WSUS. It should be available in the “Update rollup” category but note that even if Auto-Approve for the “Update Rollup” category
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We’ve been getting a couple questions about this so I wanted to let everyone know what the status was. According to KB article 926139 , the Windows PowerShell 1.0 English Language Installation Package is intended for Windows XP SP2 and later but
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On Monday the WU/MU team released a revised WSUSSCN2.CAB file. This new cab file addresses reported issues with last Tuesday’s release of the security bulletin MS09-037 being over-offered on x64 platform systems. No systems are left un-secure as a result
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Looks like the folks on the MSRC blog just posted the August security bulleting webcast and customer Q&A. To quote their site: It is apparent that there is still a bit of confusion around the Active Template Library (ATL) issue and how current updates
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Just an FYI that we released: 973882 - Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) could allow remote code execution 972260 - MS09-034: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer and 969706 - MS09-035:
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Just an FYI that an out of band release is scheduled for tomorrow at 10:00am Pacific time. The release is to address a single issue but in order to provide the broadest protections possible to customers we’ll be releasing two separate security bulletins:
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Just an FYI that we just posted Microsoft Security Advisory 973472, an update that highlights a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Web Components. Specifically, the vulnerability exists in the Spreadsheet ActiveX control and while we’ve only seen limited
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I just posted about the MSRC’s Advance Notification for the July 2009 security bulleting release but as soon as I did that I saw that they also followed that up with some insight into 972890: We’ve gotten some questions from customers about when we got
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The folks over on the MSRC blog just posted the July 2009 Advance Notification for the July 2009 Security Bulleting Release. According to their post: Our Advance Notification was published today and indicates that next Tuesday, July 14 at 10:00
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We are planning on releasing two updates related to the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Both of these address customer feedback problems that have been reported back to us. To find out what they are see Upcoming Updates for .NET Framework 3.5
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