Patch Recommendations

July 2012 Patch Notes: From Jim's Desk

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS12-043, MS12-044 and MS12-045 are all rated “Critical”.  MS12-043 (XML core services bug) is the most important patch this month. It is both publicly disclosed and being exploited. Make sure this one gets installed. Microsoft’s risk assessment…

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Virtual Administrator’s June 2012 Patch Recommendations

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS12-036 is rated Critical and is a vulnerability in Remote Desktop. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure this is installed.  This is an RDP vulnerability and only machines with RDP…

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Virtual Administrator’s May 2012 Patch Recommendations

Virtual Administrator’s May 2012 Patch Recommendations We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. A number of MS Office vulnerabilities addressed this month.   If you have machines with Office Word 2007 deployed, installing MS12-029 is the top priority.  After that MS12-034 is the most concerning…

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Virtual Administrator’s April 2012 Patch Recommendations

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them.   While MS12-027 is the only patch any know exploits, Microsoft rates MS12-023 and  as “Likely to see reliable exploits developed within next 30 days” MS12-023 fixes several vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and MS12-024 addresses a security…

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Virtual Administrator's March 2012 Patch Recommendations

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS12-020  is rated Critical.  After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure this is installed.  This is an RDP vulnerability and only machines with this enabled are at risk.  Although this was…

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Virtual Administrator’s February 2012 Patch Recommendations

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. 4 are rated Critical.  After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure these are installed.  Microsoft recommends giving top priority to MS12-010, a cumulative update for IE. No out-of-band updates were released…

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