I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
I was expecting a larger than normal patch deployment for October as this is a five-week cycle due to the day it fell on, so this month we have a LOT of patches going out.
Bulletin ID
Maximum Severity Rating
Vulnerability Impact
Restart Requirement
Affected Software*
Bulletin 1
Critical
Remote Code Execution
Requires restart
Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
Bulletin 2
May require restart
Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008
Bulletin 3
Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
Bulletin 4
Important
Bulletin 5
Internet Explorer on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2
Bulletin 6
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2
Bulletin 7
Spoofing
Bulletin 8
Bulletin 9
Elevation of Privilege
Bulletin 10
Denial of Service
Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2
Bulletin 11
Microsoft Office Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Visio Viewer 2002, Visio Viewer 2003, and Visio Viewer 2007
Bulletin 12
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, andMicrosoft Silverlight 2
Bulletin 13
Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Developer Tools, and Microsoft Forefront
What does this mean to us that have to turn the handle? Probably a very large deployment package that needs to go out to all our DP's. If your secondaries are low on disk space I'd suggest freeing some up in readiness for this months deployment. Using my crystal ball, I can envision this deployment package being several hundred MB's. Also, if you haven't already then you should be looking at removing some of those old deployment packages (2007\2008), and rolling the non-superceded patches in to a sustainer deployment package to whittle down the size of your existing deployment packages.
Check out the October Security Bulletin to get more information on these patches
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-oct.mspx