fusionone: Technology for Business

Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s September 2011 patches in your organization. This month is pretty mild in terms of recent patches. The interesting surprise this month was Microsoft accidentally making the security patch information known for a few hours the week before it

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.

The out-of-band and non-security stories were great this month. Unfortunately, we are getting pounded with a stunning sixteen patches, which cover a large number of problems. To make it worse, a number of patches have known issues and surprises when installing them, I’ve highlighted these patches for you, so look before you leap on these.