Microsoft struggles with Patch Tuesday

Microsoft struggles with Patch Tuesday
By Ina Fried
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: October 10, 2006, 12:12 PM PDT

Microsoft on Tuesday released a slew of patches for Windows and Office, but
a glitch prevented the company from pushing the updates out automatically.

The patches, which include critical fixes for both Office and Windows, can
be manually downloaded from Microsoft's Web site, and the company said it
hopes the more-automated tools will have the patch available later on
Tuesday. Microsoft said that its technical teams "have been working around
the clock" to fix the updating problems.

"Due to technical difficulties experienced on the Microsoft Update platform,
security updates released today are not currently available via Microsoft
Update, Automatic Updates, Windows Server Update Services or Windows Update
v6," the software maker said.

More here...

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+strugg...tag=html.alert

Hope this helps.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
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ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
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All updates are available via the MS Download Center :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/B...scending&nr=20
or via the Windows Update Catalog :
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=8973
(the above link works ONLY in Internet Explorer)
or, from the links in the individual Security Bulletins.
First visit here :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms06-oct.mspx
Then click the links under the Summary heading:
Critical (6)
Important (1)
Moderate (2)
Low (1)


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Peter wrote:

> Microsoft struggles with Patch Tuesday
> By Ina Fried
> Staff Writer, CNET News.com
> Published: October 10, 2006, 12:12 PM PDT
>
> Microsoft on Tuesday released a slew of patches for Windows and Office, but
> a glitch prevented the company from pushing the updates out automatically.
>
> The patches, which include critical fixes for both Office and Windows, can
> be manually downloaded from Microsoft's Web site, and the company said it
> hopes the more-automated tools will have the patch available later on
> Tuesday. Microsoft said that its technical teams "have been working around
> the clock" to fix the updating problems.
>
> "Due to technical difficulties experienced on the Microsoft Update platform,
> security updates released today are not currently available via Microsoft
> Update, Automatic Updates, Windows Server Update Services or Windows Update
> v6," the software maker said.
>
> More here...
>
> http://news.com.com/Microsoft+strugg...tag=html.alert
>
> Hope this helps.
>