Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right decision on applying Microsoft's November 2010 patches in your organization.
Ah, back to normal with a more manageable dose of patches this month! In fact, this month had no true patches on the official "Patch Tuesday," although the fourth Tuesday of the month remains an unofficial day to release minor items.
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Security Patches



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Other Updates

"The Usual Suspects": Updates to the Malicious Software Removal Tool (11.8MB - 12.2MB) and the Junk Email Filter (2.2MB).
Updates since the last Patch Tuesday
There were no security updates released out-of-band. However, there have been a number of minor items added and updated since the last Patch Tuesday:
Reliability update for W7, 2008 R2, and Windows Embedded Standard 7 (KB2249857) - 33KB - 45KB
Media Center cumulative update for W7 (KB2284742) 5.2MB - 6.4MB
Fix for the "Consider replacing your battery" problem on HP laptops with W7 (KB2293330) - 86KB - 101KB
Update to DNS Best Practices Analyzer for 2008 R2 x64 (KB2385596) - 249KB
Application-compatibility updates for Vista, W7, 2008, and 2008 R2 (KB2388210) - 32KB - 4.0MB
Root certificate updates (KB931125) - 352KB
Changed, but not significantly: