SUS Blog
This is the Windows Server Update Services support team blog. We cover all things relating to WSUS and Windows Update.
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure: From Philosophy to Practice
Last summer at the Black Hat security conference, we announced a philosophical shift in how we refer...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/19/2011
Q&A from April 2011 Security Bulletin Webcast
Hello, Today we published the April Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/14/2011
New KB: Windows Update may encounter error 0x80240fff when updates published on an internal server have the same Product Name and Category Name
Just a quick heads up on a new WSUS/Windows Update Knowledge Base article we published this morning....
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/14/2011
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 updates available on WSUS have been revised
Looks like the good folks over on the WSUS product team blog have announced that the Windows 7 /...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/12/2011
The April 2011 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release
Just an FYI that today we are releasing 17 security bulletins, 9 of which are Critical, and 8 rated...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/12/2011
April 2011 Security Bulletin Release
Hello again everyone, Pete Voss here, and as I previously mentioned in the Advanced Notification...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/12/2011
New WSUS Category for Developer Tools, Runtimes and Redistributables
Looks like the WSUS team has a new product category headed our way. From the WSUS product team...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/07/2011
New Category for Developer Tools, Runtimes and Redistributables
A new product category will be added to your WSUS server under the Developer Tools, Runtimes and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT] Date: 04/07/2011
FYI: Advance Notification Service for the April 2011 Bulletin Release
From the MSRC blog: Today, we're providing advanced notification on the release of 17 security...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/07/2011
Advance Notification Service for the April 2011 Bulletin Release
Hello everyone, My name is Pete Voss, and I'm a senior response communications manager with...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/07/2011
Announcing the Microsoft Security Update Guide, Second Edition
We're pleased to announce the release of the new Microsoft Security Update Guide, Second Edition....
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/05/2011
Like our System Center blogs? Now you have an app for that
Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/30/2011
Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2524375
Today we're releasing Security Advisory 2524375, to address nine fraudulent digital certificates...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/23/2011
WSUS Troubleshooting Survival Guide
Our very own Yuri Diogenes posted the first draft of his guide for troubleshooting Windows Server...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/22/2011
New Category for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6
A new product category will be added to your WSUS server under the Microsoft Application...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT] Date: 03/14/2011
Q&A from the March 2011 Security Bulletin Webcast
Hello, Today we published the March Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/11/2011
The March 2011 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release
Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have three bulletins addressing four...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/08/2011
March 2011 Security Bulletin Release
Hello all -- Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have three bulletins...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/08/2011
Advance Notification Service for the March 2011 Security Bulletin Release
Hello all -- Today, as part of our usual monthly bulletin cadence, we are providing our Advance...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/03/2011
Q&A from the February 2011 Security Bulletin Webcast
Hello, Today we published the February Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/10/2011
February 2011 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release
Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have 12 bulletins addressing 22...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/08/2011
Deeper insight into the Security Advisory 967940 update
Hi! I'm Adam Shostack, a program manager working in TWC Security, and I'd like to talk a bit about...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/08/2011
February 2011 Security Bulletin Release
Hello all -- Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have 12 bulletins...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/08/2011
Advance Notification Service for the February 2011 Security Bulletin Release
Today we're providing our Advance Notification Service for February's security bulletins. This...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/03/2011
Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2501696
Hello. Today we're releasing Security Advisory 2501696, which describes a publicly disclosed...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/28/2011
FYI: Integration of TechNet Blog User Account with TechNet Forums Profile
For those of you who sign-in to comment on the TechNet Blogs, there is a change coming on January...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/26/2011
There's a new Category and Product Family coming to WSUS
Just an FYI that we will be adding a new product family to your WSUS server named Microsoft...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/13/2011
New Category and Product Family for Microsoft StreamInsight
We will be adding a new product family to your WSUS server – Microsoft StreamInsight. The...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2011
Q&A from the January 2011 Security Bulletin Webcast
Hello, Today we published the January Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/13/2011
The January 2011 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release
Today as part of our monthly security bulletin release we have two bulletins addressing three...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/11/2011
January 2011 Security Bulletin Release
Hello - Today as part of our monthly security bulletin release we have two bulletins addressing...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/11/2011
An update on the detection and installation of MS10-090 (KB2416400)
Last Thursday we published some information on some detection and installation issues we were seeing...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/21/2010
Important Questions regarding MS10-090 (KB2416400) Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update
Some WSUS administrators have had questions regarding the latest Internet Explorer Cumulative...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2010
Update on a couple issues we are seeing related to detection and installation of MS10-090 (KB2416400)
I just wanted to let you know about a couple issues we are seeing on our support team related to...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/16/2010
The December 2010 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release
As part of our usual cycle of monthly security updates, today we're releasing 17 bulletins...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/14/2010
Advance notification for the December 2010 Microsoft security bulletin release
Just an FYI that the MSRC released their Advance Notification Service for the December 2010 security...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/09/2010
Best practices for catalog authoring in System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP)
If you're looking for some guidance and best practices on how to author and maintain high quality...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/16/2010
The November 2010 Microsoft Security Bulletins are released
It's the second Tuesday of the month which means it's time for our regular cycle of monthly security...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/09/2010
How To Expire Software Updates in System Center Updates Publisher And Synchronize the Expired Updates in Configuration Manager 2007
Looks like our very own Fei Xia on the ConfigMgr 2007 Sustained Engineering team wrote up a great...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/08/2010
Advance Notification for the November 2010 Microsoft Security Bulletin release
Just a quick FYI that we’ve issued our Advance Notification Service for the November ’10 security...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/04/2010
Information on the ConfigMgr 2007 client side process for Software Updates
I already posted this over on our Configuration Manager blog but since it relates to WSUS I thought...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/04/2010
Security Advisory 2458511 is now released
Just an FYI that: Today we released Security Advisory 2458511 to address a new vulnerability that...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/03/2010
Microsoft Releases MS10-070 to all distribution channels
Looks like the Microsoft Security Response Center has released MS10-070 to WSUS: Today we released...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/30/2010
Announcing the release of the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) 3.0
This release of the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) 3.0 completely replaces the Offline...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/28/2010
Announcing new WSUS categories under Bing and BizTalk
The WSUS product team had a couple announcements yesterday regarding new product categories. ...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/28/2010
Out of Band Release to Address Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728
Today we provided advance notification to customers that we will release an out-of-band security...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/27/2010
We have just updated Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728
Just a friendly FYI in case you missed it, but we've just updated Microsoft Security Advisory...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/21/2010
Q&A from the September 2010 Security Release Bulletin Webcast and a new Security Advisory release
I was just going through all of the weekend news and saw our good friends over at the Microsoft...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/20/2010
September 2010 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release Advance Notification
Just a quick heads up that today we're releasing our Advance Notification Service (ANS) for the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/09/2010