Patch Tuesday

Microsoft this month released a significant update that fixes 68 reported vulnerabilities, including a record six zero-days affecting the Windows platform.

Each month the Readiness team analyses the patches applied to Windows, Microsoft Office and related technology/development platforms. We look at each update, the individual changes and the potential impact on enterprise environments. We hope that these testing scenarios offer some structured guidance on how to best deploy Windows updates to your environment.

For this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft dealt with 84 flaws and a zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange that hasn’t yet been fully resolved.

Each month the Readiness teams analyses the patches applied to Windows, Microsoft Office and related technology/development platforms. We look at each update, the individual changes and the potential impact on enterprise environments. We hope that these testing scenarios offer some structured guidance on to best deploy Windows update to your environment.

Microsoft focused on Windows with this month’s big patch release, pushing out 63 updates affecting the operating system, Microsoft Office and the Visual Studio and .NET platforms. The release came amid reports of three publicly exploited vulnerabilities.

Each month we analyse all the Windows Patch Tuesday updates for Microsoft Office, .NET and windows/server platforms and offer testing guidance for enterprise IT administrators.

This month’s Patch Tuesday deals with a variety of security issues in Microsoft Windows, Office, Exchange, and Visual Studio. It’s a broad update across Microsoft products that will require planning and testing before general deployment.