November 11, 2009 9:55 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
11/10/2009 Windows Updates,
Patch Tuesday,
Windows updatesHere we go again: yesterday (11/10/2009) was another Patch Tuesday. This time around we see some reasonably serious critical level updates, where we find many versions of Windows affected (desktops: 2000, XP, and Vista; servers: 2003 and 2008) but no mention of either Windows 7 or Windows Server...
June 10, 2009 4:43 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista,
enterprise Vista desktop,
MS09-018,
MS09-019,
MS09-020,
MS09-021,
MS09-022,
MS09-023,
MS09-024,
MS09-025,
MS09-026,
MS09-027,
Patch TuesdayOK, so yesterday's Patch Tuesday does the deed for June. It's a monster: 10 security bulletins, 31 vulnerabilities addressed, and involving most versions of Windows itself, IE, and various MS Office and related elements (Works, Word, and Excel). Even the Windows Print Spooler and OS Kernel get in...
April 10, 2009 4:34 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Patch Tuesday,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista critical security updates,
Windows Vista Important security updates,
Windows Vista Moderate security updates,
Windows Vista security updatesNext Tuesday, April 14, is Patch Tuesday for this month. As usual, Microsoft e-mailed its Advance Notification yesterday to let us all know what's coming (there's also a Web version as well). Here's what to expect,...
March 13, 2009 4:38 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
KB958960,
KB960224,
MS09-006,
MS09-007,
MS09-008,
Patch Tuesday,
Windows UpdateTuesday, March 10, was the second Tuesday of the month, the day colloquially known to MS system administrators and security mavens as "Patch Tuesday." Here's a smorgasbord of the items that showed up in the list of 3/10/2009 items with relevance for Windows Vista:
February 9, 2009 4:40 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
KB890830,
KB894199,
KB905866,
KB950644,
KB958653,
KB960715,
Patch Tuesday,
Windows UpdateTomorrow, February 11, is the second Tuesday in February--hence, "Patch Tuesday" is once again at hand. Microsoft publishes advance notification for security bulletins each month on the preceding Thursday, so I can tell...
January 16, 2009 6:27 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
KB890830,
KB905866,
KB959141,
MS09-001,
Patch Tuesday,
Realtek RTL8168B/8111B GbE Ethernet driver update,
Windows UpdateMicrosoft kicked off 2009 with a very interesting critical security update on the first "Patch Tuesday" of this year: MS09-001 Vulnerabilities in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution addresses issues with the Server...
December 10, 2008 5:27 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
MS08-70,
MS08-71,
MS08-72,
MS08-73,
MS08-74,
MS08-75,
MS08-76,
MS08-77,
Patch Tuesday,
Security,
Windows Update,
Windows VistaThe second Tuesday in each month is when Microsoft schedules its patches, fixes, and security updates. Recently, Microsoft has begun to offer Advance Notification for its Security Bulletins, which makes it a lot easier to...
October 30, 2008 3:16 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
KB953155,
KB957200,
Microsoft e-courses,
Microsoft e-Learning,
Patch Tuesday,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshootingOn Tuesday, October 28, as I was knocking off for the day, after 11 PM, I noticed that the autoupdate function in Windows Update had posted two more items to my primary production Vista PC. Both look interesting, but so far I've had some trouble trying to ferret out more details about one of these...
October 24, 2008 10:29 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
KB958644,
MS08-067,
Patch Tuesday,
Windows Server service,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshooting,
Windows Vista Upgrade AdvisorNormally, Microsoft reserves its security patches, fixes, updates, and other software tweaks and maneuvers for the second Tuesday in each month, aka "Patch Tuesday." Yesterday afternoon I was somewhat surprised to see various sources trumpeting the release of an out-of-schedule security patch...
