Server 2008/2008R2/2012

Virtual Administrator’s June 2015 Patch Recommendations

8 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 6 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. MS15-056 and MS15-057 are rated Critical. MS15-059 is rated Important but many feel it should have been rated Critical. This…

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Virtual Administrator’s December 2013 Patch Recommendations

10 Security Bulletins were released – 5 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 11 Security Bulletins were released 5 Critical, 6 Important We have decided to deny KB2887069 (MS13-101) at this time. There are a number of reports that anti-virus can interfere with KB2887069’s installation and the update gets stuck during…

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November 2013 Patch Recommendations

8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 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. MS13-090 is a zero day vulnerability reported a few days ago. This is an update for ActiveX Kill Bits and…

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October 2013 Patch Recommendations

8 Security Bulletins were released – 4 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. MS13-080 is the top priority this month. It is a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. It includes patches for…

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September 2013 Patch Recommendations

13 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 9 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief KB2817630 (a non-security update for Microsoft Office 2013) has been denied in all patch policies. Details are below. All security updates have been approved. 13 Security Bulletins makes this the largest Patch Tuesday of 2013 so far. On…

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August 2013 Patch Recommendations

8 Security Bulletins were released and 2 were “Unreleased” – 3 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have denied part of MS13-061 update KB2874216 that affects Exchange Server 2013. We have also denied MS13-066. We will release them once Microsoft corrects the problems. MS13-059, MS13-060 and MS13-061 are rated Critical.…

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