List of updates

Is there a quick and easy way to get a list of updates released by date or
month? Possibly even seperated by OS or product. My supervisor wants a number
of updates released each month for the last 6 months or so.
Thanks,
Larry

llntt wrote:
> Is there a quick and easy way to get a list of updates released by
> date or month? Possibly even seperated by OS or product. My
> supervisor wants a number of updates released each month for the
> last 6 months or so.

Each month Microsoft puts out that months patches in an ISO format for
burning to CD:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913086 (Back to 2006)


You can see the critical (security and other) patches released for a given
month using the following:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms##-***.mspx

At the end of this line you see "ms##-***.mspx" .. If you simply replace ##
with the two-digit year and the *** with the three character month
abbreviation, you will see the list of "critical" and "important" patches
for that month (since it only happens once a month usually, if you check by
the second Tuesday (wait until afternoon) of each month - you should be
fine) - note that future months will not work.

As an example...

December 2004's patches..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms04-dec.mspx

March 2005's patches..
None released.. so that one will fail...

May 2006's patches..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms06-may.mspx

January 2007's patches..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms07-jan.mspx

April 2008's patches..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-apr.mspx

There's at least one third party tool that will download all of them for
you:
http://wud.jcarle.com/

If you are getting these for integration into a cd or some sort of
installation...

http://unattended.msfn.org/
and
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

Otherwise - please describe what it is you are doing/hoping to find in more
detail.

--
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MS-MVP
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-jun.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-may.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-apr.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-mar.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-feb.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-jan.mspx

Also see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894199
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llntt wrote:
> Is there a quick and easy way to get a list of updates released by date or
> month? Possibly even seperated by OS or product. My supervisor wants a
> number of updates released each month for the last 6 months or so.
> Thanks,
> Larry