June 2008 - Microsoft Teams & Staff

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Blocked from Deploying Security Updates

Hi. Bill here. I want to let you know that we have just posted Microsoft Security Advisory 954960 , which contains information regarding deployment Issues with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) version 3.0 and 3.0 Service Pack 1. Under specific conditions, the issue does not let clients...

Published Mon, Jun 30 2008 4:24 PM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

News from FIRST 2008: Driving Security Response Excellence and Innovation

Hi, Andrew here, Often, when you see me blogging, I’m talking about the important work we do with the researcher community. However, in addition to work with researchers, we’re always looking for ways to foster work with others in the industry and share best practices. As I sit here today at the annual...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2008 1:09 PM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

SQL Injection Attacks Exploiting Unverified User Data Input

Hey Andrew Cushman here. Today I ’ m pleased to announce the coordinated release of three security tools in Security Advisory 954462 to help customers deal with SQL injection attacks: · UrlScan version 3.0 Beta, a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services...

Published Tue, Jun 24 2008 2:35 PM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Baseline compliance report, using public WSUS views

Customers at TechEd asked how to generate a compliance report that shows computers that are out of compliance against updates that have been approved for install to them for N days. This can't be done in the public UI because it has no ability to...

Published Fri, Jun 20 2008 12:59 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

WinVerifyTrust update will be mandatory for WSUS

Good morning folks, A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Windows Vista Service Pack 1’s availability to WSUS. In that post, we mentioned that you should install the WinVerifyTrust update ( KB 938759 ) if you are running your WSUS server on a Windows...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 1:19 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WinVerifyTrust, mandatory, WSUS

MS08-030 Re-released for Windows XP SP2 and SP3

Hello, this is Christopher Budd. I wanted to let folks know that we’ve just re-released MS08-030 . This is to let you know there’s a new version of this security update available for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 customers and to encourage them to deploy these new updates. There are no new updates for the other...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 11:37 AM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Client/Server Synchronization issues

Good morning! Now that you are all back from TechEd, I wanted to address an issue that a couple of folks contacted us about regarding some client/server synchronization issues they were experiencing in their WSUS environment. Issue: Computers that have...

Published Wed, Jun 18 2008 12:25 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, synchronization, Office 2003

Reminder - Windows Vista SP1 RC Builds Expire soon!

Hi there - Quick reminder for all of you out there who helped test Windows Vista SP1 and may still be running Release Candidate builds (any build less than 6.0.6001.18000) . The RC builds will expire on June 30th - so if you happen to running one, be sure to uninstall it before the end of the month....

Published Fri, Jun 13 2008 11:59 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: Windows Update, Content, Vista

Windows Vista SP1 available to WSUS

Hi everyone, Quick update on Windows Vista SP1’s availability to WSUS. As I mentioned previously, we are planning on making the full standalone version of the service pack directly available to WSUS shortly (it’s been available for the last couple months...

Published Thu, Jun 05 2008 2:56 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WinVerifyTrust, WSUS, Vista SP1