Server 2003

Virtual Administrator’s November 2014 Patch Recommendations

14 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 8 Important, and 2 Moderate This Month In Brief 14 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 8 Important, 2 Moderate “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” Good – No major problems with this month’s patch releases. Bad – There are 14 of them. Ugly –…

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Virtual Administrator's October 2014 Patch Recommendations

8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of the 8 Security Bulletins and are releasing all of them. MS14-056, MS14-057 and MS14-058 are rated Critical. After…

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Virtual Administrator’s May 2014 Patch Recommendations

9 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 6 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 8 New Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 6 Important Microsoft included the May 1st out of band patch (MS14-021) in May’s Security Bulletins . This was previously approved the day it became available – see https://virtualadministrator.com/blog/microsoft-internet-explorer-vulnerability-patch-release/…

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Virtual Administrator's April 2014 Patch Recommendations

4 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 2 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We are denying KB2919355 at this time- see details below. All other patches have been approved. MS14-017 and MS14-018 are rated Critical. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure these are installed.…

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Virtual Administrator’s March 2014 Patch Recommendations

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them.

MS14-012 and MS14-013 are rated Critical. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure these are installed. The top priority this month is MS14-012. It affects all versions of Internet Explorer and was reported in February (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2934088). MS14-015 is rated Important and patches the Windows Kernel Driver sub-system. There have been some isolated reports of MS14-015 (KB2930275) causing problems with Vista machines but these reports have not been corroborated. If you do have problems with Vista machines after patching this is most likely suspect.

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Virtual Administrator's January 2014 Patch Recommendations

4 Security Bulletins were released – 0 Critical, 4 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. It’s a light month for patches. Only 4 security bulletins and none of them rated Critical. MS14-002 patches Windows XP…

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