This month's patches were nice and short. Unfortunately, two of the patches are for publicly reported vulnerabilities, and it baffles me that we had to wait until Patch Tuesday for them, while we got cumulative updates for Windows Media Play out-of-band.
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Security Patches




Other Updates

"The Usual Suspects": Updates to the Malicious Software Removal Tool (11.5MB - 11.8MB) and Junk Email filters (2.2MB).
Changed, but not significantly:
Platform Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (KB971644)
Updates since the last Patch Tuesday
There have been a number of minor items added and updated since the last Patch Tuesday:
.NET 3.5 SP1 update for 2008 and Vista (KB956250) 2.0MB - 6.3KB
Update for the Active Directory Domain Services Best Practice Analyzer for 2008 R2 x64 (KB980360) 276KB
Update for Windows 7 and 2008 R2 to work better with apps designed for Vista (KB980846) 529KB - 1.4MB
Windows Media Player Cumulative Update for Vista (KB981078) 10.2MB - 11.0MB
Compatibility Update for Vista, Windows 7, 2008, and 2008 R2 (KB982519) 1.7MB - 4.0MB
.NET 2.5 SP1 and 2.0 SP2 Update for 2003 and XP (KB982524) 116KB - 313KB
.NET 3.5 SP1 update for Vista and 2008 (KB982525) 2.0MB - 6.3MB
.NET 3.5 SP1 update for Windows 7 and 2008 R2 (KB982526) 1.9MB - 6.2MB
.NET Client Profile 4 for XP, Vista, and Windows 7 (KB982670) 2.0MB - 43MB
.NET 4 for XP, Vista, Windows 7, 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2 (KB982671) 2.0MB - 54MB
Changed, but not significantly:
- MS10-026 Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB977816)
- MS10-035: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (KB982381)
- MS10-041: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Security Update for XP and 2003 (KB982865)
- MS09-061: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 Security Update for 2000, XP, Vista, and 2008 (KB953297)
- Update for Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for Windows Server 2008 (KB968930)
- Update for Best Practices Analyzer for File Services for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB981111)
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Justin James is the Lead Architect for Conigent.