Patch Recommendations

Out-of-band update released on January 14 MS13-008

Microsoft released an out-of-band patch on Monday.   Out of band patch releases rarely happen and are generally because of a zero-day exploit that needs an immediate fix.

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Problems found with KB2756920 causing issues with SharePoint and Exchange 2010

On Monday (1/14) we started seeing reports of problems with KB2756920 (MS13-004 ) affecting 2008 R2 servers, with .NET 3.5.1.

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Virtual Administrator’s January 2013 Patch Recommendations

7 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. [UPDATE – 1-17-2013] —   Please review Known issues from Microsoft for Patch MS13-004.   We experienced this on several of our servers that met…

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Virtual Administrator's December 2012 Patch Recommendations

7 Security Bulletins were released – 5 Critical, 2 Important, and 0 Moderate We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. Noteworthy Patch News Of the 5 critical patches released MS12-077 should be the top priority. This Internet Explorer flaw affects all versions however it…

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Virtual Administrator’s November 2012 Patch Recommendations

6 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 1 Important, and 1 Moderate We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. Noteworthy Patch News Critical update MS12-071 for Internet Explorer is the top priority this month. However the problem only affects IE 9 so the…

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Virtual Administrator’s October 2012 Patch Recommendations

7 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical and 6 Important We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS12-064 is the top priority this month.  After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure this is installed.  MS12-066 and MS12-067…

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