Responding to customer complaints, Microsoft says it plans to simplify its patch technology and to expand its automatic update service to include more products. In a white paper released late on Wednesday, the software giant identified four areas...
There's no doubt that Microsoft is keen to be seen to be making some effort on the virus front, particularly in terms of patch management. Its patch management security push - including company-wide patch management features turning up in Microsoft...
Microsoft advised that companies still looking to prevent the rollout of SP2 use a patch management tool, such as System Updates Services (SUS). It would have been nice to see Microsoft properly clarifying how this works with SUS," said Paul...
But after some early testing and conversations with customers, Microsoft decided to keep the SMS patch-management product separate from the MOM console program. Microsoft is dropping plans to combine several of its management software titles into a...
Patch management is the "number one pain-point" among computer administrators, said Don Grantham, executive vice president of Sun Services, in a statement. Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Aduva, a small company whose products automate the...
Microsoft has released an updated version of a faulty Internet Explorer patch to fix a serious security flaw introduced by the original version. At the same time, eEye Digital Security disclosed that the crash was actually an exploitable security...