Hi Folks:

There will be a new product category added to your WSUS server over the next day or two, under the Windows family. The new category will be titled “Windows Ultimate Extras.”  Windows Ultimate Extras are programs, services, and premium content for Windows Vista™Ultimate. 

The Windows Ultimate Extras category will contain all Extras for Windows Ultimate as they are released throughout the Windows Vista timeframe.  Ultimate Extras will be offered through WSUS, for clients running Windows Vista Ultimate edition.

-Bobbie

Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 has a new update going out to Microsoft Update and to downlevel WSUS servers. I think it is important to note that client action outlined below must happen to get the new SMIME control to the client's machine. There will be another update coming out soon (no specific date) that will address the client experience issue by alerting the user that the current SMIME control installed on the client is outdated. 

Scott Roberts - Exchange Sustained Engineering

Exchange 2003 SP2 update for S/MIME has been released

An update that applies to the S/MIME control in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 has been released to the download center. This update resolves a critical issue in the S/MIME control which can cause crashes when used with Internet Explorer 7.0.

KB 924334

Important Note

After this Hotfix is applied to the server, end users who have an S/MIME control installed on the client machines need to re-install the control from the Options dialog in OWA.

The update is live at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=41275DEC-4C01-4C41-AA64-C9DBE5EA3F7E&displaylang=en

The associated KB, 924334 is also live at:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924334

This update has also been released via Microsoft Update as a critical update (pending approval from the folks at Microsoft Update).

Exciting news out of a grey, wet Redmond today from the IE team! IE7.0 starts it's rolling release today! 

And now from the WSUS team.....Internet Explorer 7.0 for English clients will be available for WSUS server synchronization from Microsoft Update starting Wednesday, November 1, 2006.  This release will be available in other languages over the next few months. IE7.0 will be classified as an Update Rollup for WSUS servers and will be approximately 15MB in size.    IE7.0 will be available for Windows XP SP2, Windows XP 64-bit Edition, and Windows Server 2003 SP1 systems.

* An important note:  IE7.0 will not be available to SUS 1.0 or SUS 1.0/SP1 servers, which will be at the end of their support lifecycle on December 6, 2006. 

For more information on IE 7.0, see: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

For more information on the Automatic Updates distribution of IE 7.0 see: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/updatemanagement/windowsupdate/ie7announcement.mspx

For more information on testing and deploying IE7.0, download the IE 7.0 Readiness Toolkit at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D13EE10D-2718-47F1-AA86-1E32D526383D&displaylang=en

The earlier network issues experienced on the Microsoft Update platform,
which delayed the October security updates released today, have been
addressed.   The October security updates have been been replicating as of
approx. 3:00pm today PST.

If you had a scheduled WSUS synchronization earlier today, which  did not
contain October security update metadata, you can kick off a manual
synchronization or wait until your next scheduled synchronization time to
recieve these updates.

To reiterate messaging on the MSRC blog (http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10.aspx)  this delay was due to networking for these systems: there are no issues with the October security updates themselves.  Also, this issue doesn't affect customers using Software Update
Services (SUS), Windows Update v4 or Office Update.

-thanks,

Bobbie