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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 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.”

In keeping with its usual schedule, Microsoft released its Security Bulletin Advanced Notification for July, previewing the security fixes it plans to release next Tuesday, July 12.  Following June’s patch bonanza, Microsoft plans to release four  security bulletins this month; three  of these are for Windows, and one for the Visio component of Microsoft Office.