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August 2010 Patch Day looming
Friday, August 06, 2010 10:01 AM

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 getting these announcements straight from the horses mouth... Read More...

by Rob - MVP | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft, Patching, 2010, August

Patching Windows 2008 Server Core with ConfigMgr
Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:36 AM

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. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387102(VS.85).aspx... Read More...

by Rob - MVP | with no comments

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Patching, Software Updates, WUA, Windows 2008 Core

Important: SMS2003 ITMU Patch issue for April 2010 patch set
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 9:29 AM

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 install then you'll want to take a quick read of this one... Read More...

by Rob - MVP | with no comments

Filed under: SMS2003, Patching, ITMU, April 2010

Microsoft August 2009 Patch releases - Huge filesizes this month
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:59 AM

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 are just stupidly huge. Just don't understand why we are... Read More...

by Rob - MVP | with no comments

Filed under: Patching, August 2009

Patching: Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (KB960083) Failed to install
Monday, March 16, 2009 1:56 PM

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: Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (KB960083). Client... Read More...

by Rob - MVP | with no comments

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Patching, Failed, KB960083

Apple OS patch release on the 12th of Feb filled in some Arbitrary code execution holes
Friday, February 13, 2009 11:09 AM

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 think anyone that is Pro-Apple can lambast MS for it's... Read More...

by Rob - MVP | with no comments

Filed under: Apple, Patching