Tag: Security

Microsoft has released SP1 for office 2010 with a whole bunch of fixes. Here is the detailed list of fixes for your easy reference from MS article: Description of Office 2010 SP1    Notes     1. Service Pack 1 includes a rollup of all Cumulative Updates released through April 2011 and all Public Updates released through June 2011. They are not included in the list below, which is specific to changes that are shipping for the first time in SP1. 2. Because we relied on experts of each product to write the text below, the phrasing throughout the table […]

It’s when you have the Windows Updates services configured to auto update the system which runs when you restart/shutdown the system, the Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 turns hung or takes long time to pass through the updates install if any of the updates are included for drivers. Microsoft found this is an issue which occurs because of a race condition in the Plug and Play service during the driver update process.  Has released an update  for this issue.   Update details from MSFT update documentation: Prerequisites To apply this update, you must be running one of the […]

This article describes the Windows Update Stand-alone Installer (Wusa.exe) in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. The Wusa.exe file is in the %windir%System32 folder. The Windows Update Stand-alone Installer uses the Windows Update Agent API to install update packages. Update packages have an .msu file name extension. The .msu file name extension is associated with the Windows Update Stand-alone Installer. Back to the top MORE INFORMATION An .msu file contains the following contents: Windows Update metadata This metadata describes each update package that the .msu file contains. One or more .cab files Each […]