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The Official SBS Blog : Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP2 installation is blocked on Windows SBS 2008: http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/07/30/microsoft-exchange-2007-sp2-installation-is-blocked-on-windows-sbs-2008.aspx Important update: Installing Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP2 on Windows Small Business Server 2008 currently causes problems in some web services of Windows SBS 2008 and requires manual steps to fix the problems. A prerequisite check is deployed in Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP2 setup program for Windows SBS 2008 so that Windows SBS users will be alerted and prompted before proceeding with installation .

Security Fix – Microsoft’s Emergency Patch Mess: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/07/microsofts_emergency_patch_mes.html?wprss=securityfix From the comments: “I am not sure about the following comment Microsoft made regarding the release of these latest patches to IE. “We decided to issue these updates now rather than wait for things to get worse.” Why would Microsoft wait to release these patches

Microsoft today released a pair of emergency software updates (Redmond calls them “out-of-band” updates). Yes, that’s right folks: If you use Windows — and especially if you browse the Web with Internet Exploder Explorer – it’s once again time to update. The backstory to these patches is a bit complex, so here’s the short version: A while back, Microsoft introduced several security flaws into a set of widely-used third-party software development tools, and today it’s correcting that error by issuing an updated set of tools

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In today’s podcast : Google takes $700M loss on sale of AOL stake; Microsoft scrambles to patch IE security hole; and EU changes mobile regulations.

Company releases progress report on three programs launched a year ago to identify security holes and patch them faster. Go here to see the original: Microsoft says security programs are paying off | 24 Blog News …

I am extremely excited to announce that Rich Mogull and I believe we are ready to publish two key deliverables for Project Quant today and make them available for download. The first is what I’ve referred to in the past as “the model,” which is the culmination of the first phase of Project Quant.

In today’s podcast : Microsoft rivals welcome move to increase browser choice; Microsoft to issue out-of-band security patch; Palm reenables iTunes syncing for Pre. read more

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INTRODUCTION Microsoft SQL Server 2005 hotfixes are created for specific SQL Server service packs.

I posted this to someone today and thought I’d blog this here as well: Regarding the patches that came out last week, consider two of them to be Service Packs and plan accordingly:  There are two BIG hunking patches in this go round that one really needs to treat like service packs. 1.  Exchange.  This is a denial of service and there’s no mitigation.  Big whoop they will target Vlad first and his big Exchange servers first, I can make a backup and install carefully.  You are replacing store.exe so it’s like it’s a sp1 or sp2.  Treat accordingly.  2007 does not need a reboot but I have seen these Update rollups sometimes need to be reinstalled as the initial install may mess up.  2k3 does need a reboot and a mere stopping of services and restarting on a SBS 2k3 box isn’t enough. 2.  SQL and on a SBS box we have ‘em coming out of our ears.  It’s replacing SQL engine as well.  Also treat like a service pack.  Only nails you if you have an external web site exposed and they can get in through cross site scripting, so I don’t see that we should be patching quickly on this one, we have time.  Treat also like a service pack as if the permissions in that database are horked you are calling a PSS SQL expert as there’s no easy blog answer as someone has to dig out the log file and read it