Yesterday we released Security Advisory 979682 to address an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows kernel, affecting all currently supported versions of 32-bit Windows. 64-bit versions of Windows, including Windows Server 2008 R2, are not affected.

The EMEA Core Team posted a great tip on a WSUS related error they’ve been seeing lately: When running updates from WSUS 3.0 SP1 we are seeing the following error messages in the Windows Update Agent Log File C:WindowsWindowsUpdate.log.

Suggest you post this to the System Center Essentials – Updates forum: [link] This MSKB only mentions XP but shows the 80244021 error: You cannot download updates when you access the Windows Update Web site from a Windows XP-based computer that is behind a firewall or a proxy server

You’ve heard about it and read about and now you’ll soon have the chance to try it out yourself.

Microsoft has just released a hotfix to address AMT 4 / AMT 5 power control within System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (KB957469): Description: The Out of Band Power control …