Microsoft Updates:February 2009 Advanced Notification

Advance Notification for next week’s bulletin release which will occur on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 around 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

It is important to remember that while the information posted below is intended to help with your planning, because it is preliminary information, it is subject to change.

As part of this month’s security bulletin release process, we will issue four security bulletins – two rated ‘Critical’ and two rated ‘Important’ – to address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office. Depending on the bulletin, a restart may be required. The updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.

As we do each month, the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool will be updated.

We are also planning to release high-priority, non-security updates on Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) as well as high-priority, non-security updates on Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). For additional information, please see the Other Information section of the Advanced Notification.

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