IDG Contributor Network: Massive change to a moderate Patch Tuesday
Last month, we had the largest ever release of patches and updates from Microsoft.
This month, we see the biggest change to Patch Tuesday since the first updates were released on the second Tuesday in October 2003, starting with MS03-041. Security bulletins with easy to follow formats like MSyy-xxx are no longer published by Microsoft as of April 2017.
Now, we have the Microsoft Security Update Guide which is defined by Microsoft as the "authoritative source of information on our security updates." The MSUG is a searchable database of patches and updates that offers some basic queries and filtering. In addition to this database-driven approach, Microsoft has published summary release notes for April 2017 that can be found here. Helpfully, this summary outlines that the following technologies are updated for April:
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