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By Justin James April 10, 2012, 12:21 PM PDT Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decisions when applying Microsoft’s April 2012 patches in your organization. One nice thing about the April 2012 set of patches is that it seems like the issue where opening files on network shares

By Justin James March 13, 2012, 1:19 PM PDT Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s March 2012 patches in your organization. In one of the more surprising Patch Tuesdays in recent memory (not including December’s, because they are usually light), we have only one

By Justin James February 14, 2012, 1:55 PM PST Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s February 2012 patches in your organization. One unique thing about this month’s Patch Tuesday is the rash of update rollups for the second-level Windows Server products like Home Server

By Justin James January 10, 2012, 12:20 PM PST Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s January 2012 patches in your organization. Happy New Year to all! Given the complete lack of out-of-band patches (security or otherwise) and the sparseness of the nonsecurity patches, it

By: Robert Keith Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is an average month—the vendor is releasing 13 bulletins covering a total of 19 vulnerabilities. Three of this month’s issues are rated ‘Critical’ and they affect Media Player, Microsoft Time ActiveX control, and the public issue regarding TrueType fonts (currently

Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decisions when applying Microsoft’s November 2011 patches in your organization. So, we’re treated to one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays of the year, with no really big items done out of band either. And the whole thing is ruined by MS11-083, which

By Justin James Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s October 2011 patches in your organization. I think this may be the most pleasant Patch Tuesday of 2011. The out-of-band patches were minimal (just an update to root certificates to handle another Iranian-hacked root server).

By Justin James Source Microsoft did not release anything out of band since the last Patch Tuesday! What did we, the Windows Systems Administrators of the World, do to deserve this? It’s a nice change of pace to see fewer remote code execution attacks, and that a smaller percentage of the fixes are rated “Critical.”