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Support Tip: Clients are unable to download 3rd party updates when the WSUS...
~ Subbulakshmi Kumar | Support EngineerI was recently working with a customer who found that he was unable to download third party updates from System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2012)...
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February 2015 Updates
Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released nine security bulletins – three rated Critical and six rated Important in severity, to address 56 unique Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in...
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Security Advisory 3046015 released
Today, we released Security Advisory 3046015 to provide guidance to customers in response to the SSL/TLS issue referred to by researchers as “FREAK” (Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys). Our...
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March 2015 Updates
Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 14 security bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange, and Internet Explorer. We encourage customers...
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Support Tip: WSUS sync in ConfigMgr 2012 fails with HTTP 503 errors
~ Eric Ellis | Senior Support Escalation EngineerHere in product support we’ve seen a recent uptick in issues related to WSUS/ConfigMgr sync problems after the last Patch Tuesday, so I wanted to take a...
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Support Tip: High CPU utilization on Domain Controllers due to WSUS App Pool...
~ Dennis Donahoe| Senior Support Escalation Engineer Last week we mentioned an issue we’ve seen here in product support where System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) or System Center...
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April 2015 Updates
Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 11 security bulletins . We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including the...
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Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion – Azure and Project Spartan
I am excited to announce significant expansions to the Microsoft Bounty Programs . We are evolving the 'Online Services Bug Bounty, launching a new bounty for Project Spartan, and updating the...
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May 2015 Updates
Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 13 security bulletins . We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including a...
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Why Microsoft Security Bulletins MS15-049 and MS15-051 are listed as MS15-044...
~ Meghan Stewart | Support Escalation EngineerIf you’ve reviewed the Security Bulletin Summary for May 2015, you may have noticed that some security bulletins appear to be missing from your WSUS or...
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New Windows Update Client for Microsoft Windows 7 Available
There is a new update to the Windows Update Client available that includes the following fixes:- This update addresses an issue in which the Windows Update Client displays an out-of-memory error during...
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A few notes on the fix for the recent update scan failure issue
~ Larry Mosley | Senior Escalation EngineerHi everyone, in case you weren’t already aware, a fix has been released to address the issue with update scan failures causing incorrect compliance status....
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June 2015 Updates
Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 8 security bulletins . We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including the...
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July 2015 Security Updates
Today we released security updates for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, and Internet Explorer. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as...
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Out-of-band release for Security Bulletin MS15-078
Today, we released a security bulletin to provide an update for Microsoft Windows. Customers who have automatic updates enabled or apply the update, will be protected. We recommend customers apply the...
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Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - Bounty for Defense, Authentication...
I am very pleased to be releasing additional expansions of the Microsoft Bounty Programs . Please stop by the Microsoft Networking Lounge at Black Hat, August 5-6, to learn more about these programs;...
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August 2015 Security Update Release Summary
Today we released security updates to provide protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More...
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Security Update Solution Further Protects Customer Devices
On Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Microsoft released a security update solution to address a vulnerability . The update is for all supported versions of Internet Explorer. We recommend customers to apply...
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September 2015 Security Update Release Summary
Today we released security updates to provide protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More...
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October 2015 Security Update Release Summary
Today we released security updates to provide protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More...
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Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - .NET Core and ASP.NET Beta Bounty
Today, I have another exciting expansion of the Microsoft Bounty Programs to announce. Please visit https://aka.ms/bugbounty to find out more. I’ll be discussing this new bounty in my talk at SyScan360...
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November 2015 Security Update Release Summary
Today we released security updates to provide protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More...
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New Microsoft Windows hotfixes to address issues installing and searching for...
We have a couple recent hotfixes for Windows that you’ll want to be aware of if you install Windows updates by using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2012 or ConfigMgr 2012 R2). The...
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Important update for WSUS 4.0 (KB 3095113)
Some of you may know that we are releasing the Windows 10 1511 feature upgrade, which is the first in-place upgrade for Windows 10, to WSUS in the next couple weeks. To fully enable this deployment...
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December 2015 Security Update Release Summary
Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More...
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