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Rollout start and client availability

Hi Folks - Noticed a little confusion from our blog post yesterday regarding the Windows Update Agent Update availability. Last night's blog post was to give you some lead time before we started rolling out and making our standalone WUA update available. We are on schedule to start the rollout Monday...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 4:54 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, Microsoft Update, WU, WUA

Windows Live OneCare 3.0 coming live to MU/WSUS

In the next few weeks, we are adding a new product family to your WSUS server – Windows Live OneCare V3.0. These product updates for Windows Live OneCare are applicable for the V3.0 release. For additional information on Windows Live OneCare see http://onecare.live.com/ . The Windows Live OneCare V3...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 7:09 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, MU, Content, Microsoft Update

Critical Security Update Released Today

Hello, Microsoft has released a critical security update today, 10/23/2008 and made this update available via all update distribution channels. For more information see: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 .

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 3:31 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, MU, Windows Update, Microsoft Update, WU

Silverlight now available

Hi WSUS Admins: Just a friendly reminder, the latest Silverlight update rollup was released today. So if you have Silverlight deployed in your environment make sure you validate and approve it to continue Silverlight’s serviceability in your managed environment...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 10:46 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, Silverlight

New BizTalk Server Product Family and Host Integration Server Product Categories coming soon to WSUS

Hi WSUS Admins, Just wanted to let you know in a few days you will see a new product family in your WSUS server – BizTalk Server. The BizTalk Server product family will include updates for Host Integration Server 2000, Host Integration Server 2004, and...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 10:24 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, WSUS 3.0 SP1, MU

New Category for Microsoft Expression Product Family

In the next few weeks, we are adding a new category to your WSUS server – Expression Media 2 . The category belongs to the Microsoft Expression product family. The category will include updates for Expression Media 2, including service packs, optional...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 9:55 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, Windows Server Update Services

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 06 2008 1:19 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WinVerifyTrust, mandatory, WSUS

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 06 2008 12:25 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, synchronization, Office 2003

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 06 2008 2:56 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Filed under: WinVerifyTrust, WSUS, Vista SP1

Announcing New Office Sustained Engineering Blog for all Office update information

Hi all, If you use Microsoft Office, a great new resource has recently come online to help you understand how Office updates work. The Office Sustained Engineering blog features release announcements, known issues, explanations of update behavior, and other information about Office updates. If you work...

Published Mon, May 05 2008 8:21 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Update, MU Catalog

Early heads-up for Office 2007 SP1 Automatic Update availability

Hi folks; Just wanted to give you an early heads up. Office 2007 SP1 will be available to Automatic Update in mid-June. For all the details, see the Office Sustained Engineering Blog post here. Thanks! The MU Team

Published Thu, May 05 2008 7:49 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, Microsoft Update, Office 2007

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 availability update

IT Pros & WSUS admins, We are excited about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and the benefits it provides. We made all 36 languages of SP1 available on Windows Update earlier this week, and we’re planning to begin automatic distribution of SP1 in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese shortly...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2008 10:59 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, Microsoft Update

Hyper-V RC availability on Windows Update April 8th

Good afternoon folks! As you may know, Hyper-V Release Candidate (RC) was made available on March 19th via the Microsoft Download Center . Tomorrow, we are making the RC package available as an Optional Update via Windows Update for all Windows Server 2008 SKUs, available for interactive download. It...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 7:51 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Update

Vista SP1

Hi all, Today we made Windows Vista SP1 available for Windows Vista systems in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. What does this mean for you? Well, here are some details of what you can expect: Windows Update Users (or those of you who manage systems that directly connect to WU) From now...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2008 4:26 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: WSUS, Microsoft Update, Vista

Windows Vista SP1 Prerequisite Releases

Hi all, This week we're releasing two more prerequisites for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 that will be coming later this quarter. We wanted to let you know about them because they are both marked as Important updates (and they’re a little different than usual). KB938371 is a multi-component update...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 12:16 AM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog