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Microsoft issued two security patches today to plug important security holes in its Windows operating system and Office software. The software giant also warned that it is aware of hackers exploiting yet another unpatched security flaw …

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Security Alerts – December 2009
Thursday, 10 Dec, 2009 – 19:36 | No Comment

Recently, Microsoft released the December security bulletin , and one of the critical rated bulletin ( MS09-071 ) is related to IIS (Integrated Windows Authentication). Meant to blog about this earlier but Nazim from IIS team beat me to it :) Been seeing lot of discussions online and patch management related mailing list. So in short, if you are seeing issue on W2k3 IIS 6 after applying the fix via KB973919 , you need to repatch SP2 as described in KB2009746 ….( read more )

Re: Does WSUS / Windows update automatically reinstall uninstalled upd
Tuesday, 15 Sep, 2009 – 11:51 | No Comment

“Bret – Smart & Biggar” wrote in message news:299DFBC4-3E74-420B-BB1D-6EB239993F5E@microsoft.com … Yes. When an installation fails it is automatically rescheduled for another installation attempt at the next scheduled installation event.

I can’t install windows updates
Tuesday, 20 Jan, 2009 – 4:13 | No Comment

All windows updates are “failing”. I tried to download SUPERAntiSpyware and received the following message “The Windows Installer SErvice could not be accessed. This can occur if the Weindows Installer is …

Error Message [0x800704DD] for Windows XP os
Thursday, 11 Dec, 2008 – 0:08 | No Comment

For about a year I have been entirely unable to even download Windows or Microsoft Updates — as well as Updates for Microsoft Defender. I have read through thread after thread …

Uninstalling the Compatibility Pack after Office 2007 is installed
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 21:58 | No Comment

I recently installed Office 2007 Professional Plus over my old installation of Office 2003. Had no problems with that and Office 2007 has been running fine. During the last round of …

Duplicate Address Error (4199) When Using VPN
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 19:05 | No Comment

Good Evening, We have some Vista systems in our environment and they are the only ones experiencing these issues. After disconnecting from VPN and trying to reconnect without rebooting, …

WindowsUpdate_Error message 8007065E
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 12:40 | No Comment

Since 02. of November, over 71 Windows updates have been failing because of KODE_8007065E – non professional Vista Home Præmium 64

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Error message 80070643
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 10:49 | No Comment

For months now, Windows update has been failing to install updates. I went into help yesterday and followed the instructions for this error message, and some were able to install after …

Cannot Install Windows update KB938126
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 10:14 | No Comment

Dear All, Any help will be appreciated – I am trying to install Windows Update KB938126 which is required to run my Linksys DMA2100 Media Center Extender, however when …

Report installed patches
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 9:05 | No Comment

Hello all I recently setup wsus 3.0 sp1 on windows 2008. How can i get a report using wsus on the installed patches on a group of servers? I dont want …

Windows 2008 server not working
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 4:25 | No Comment

My windows 2008 server stop responding during shutdown after install a series of hotfixes and then try to restart the computer Consider the following scenario. On a Windows Vista-based computer or …

Windows 2008 server stop
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 4:24 | No Comment

My windows 2008 server stop responding during shutdown after install a series of hotfixes and then try to restart the computer Consider the following scenario. On a Windows Vista-based computer or …