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Lots of chatter out there on the web on this, Microsoft has pulled a patch, KB2823324, that is reportedly causing Windows OS’s not to boot properly or for application to not function correctly. If you haven’t got this out into production yet, think it’d be a sensible precaution to remove it from any...

I've fallen out of the routine of announcing the patches each month, I felt that if it wasn't a notable release, well, then there is no reason to duplicate what a zillion other folk are happily duplicating, instead I assume you've signed up to the bulletin announcement mailing list and are...

Found a good article over on Nathan's blog detailing how to patch with the WUA client, Windows 2008 server core. Support came for W2008C in ConfigMgr SP1 , but to patch it you'll need to setup the usual on the ConfigMgr side then run a vbcript on the W2008C server to initiate the patch install...

Defo one to watch out for if you're using SMS2003 + ITMU to deploy the April 2010 patch set The ConfigMgr support team blog: We've been getting some calls about this one so I thought it deserved a mention here. If you're having some ITMU related issues with the April 2010 security patch...

We just added up the patch sets for August 2009 to 1.3GB. Holy cow that is a lot of content to be pushing out for patching. Little bit of looking and you'll discover that the main culprit is Visual Studio. We've seen this before for SQL patches, but the size of the patches for Visual Studio...

Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 ( KB960083 ) fails to install Not many of you will see this, problem manifests if a SQL instance service is set to Disabled. Client System EventLog: Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643:...

On the 12th of Feb 2009 Apple released a slew of patches . Dotted in amongst the list are patches for issues that look very similiar to Windows bugs, such as "arbitrary code execution". I only blog about this to add another pebble to the debate regarding the safetly of OS's. I don't...