During the planning phases of Windows Embedded Standard 2011, we invested considerable effort to make Windows Embedded Standard 2011 customizable to the point where our customers will be able to create a custom experience from the moment the machine boots up until it shuts down. To reach this goal we introduced several new packages and features. .. more »

When using Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) in RAM or RAMREG mode several customers might assume the EWF overlay is limited solely by the availability of physical memory. Consequently, many assume they will be able to achieve an overlay twice as big on a system with 2 GB RAM than on a system with 1 GB RAM. This is not true by any means. This article .. more »

LAN Settings and configure the correct proxy and make sure you can reach the WSUS URL specified. Once done you can copy these user proxy settings to the win http proxy settings using the proxycfg u command. Once the proxy settings are specified you can run wuauclt /detectnow and check the windowsupdate.log for errors. 4. Make sure the agent is .. more »

Looks like there's been a new category addition to WSUS: There is a new product category being added to the WSUS Products and Classifications dialog under the product family “Expression”. The new product category is for Expression Web 3. The Expression Web 3 product category will include updates for Expression Web 3, including service packs, incr.. more »

Hi WSUS Admins, There is a new product category being added to the WSUS Products and Classifications dialog under the product family “Expression”. The new product category is for Expression Web 3. The Expression Web 3 product category will include updates for Expression Web 3, including service packs, incremental and cumulative updates. For additio.. more »

Charles Torre, from Microsoft Channel9, interviewed the Development Manager Oren Winter and his leads on Windows Embedded Standard 2011 that the team has been busy working on for the past couple of years. You will hear insights from those who are really hands-on the code: the developers :) !     Windows Embedded: Past, Present and Future Weijuan.. more »

Just in case you missed it, last Friday we released Security Advisory 977544 to provide information, including customer guidance, on a publicly reported Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting Server Messaging Block (SMB) Protocol. You can read all the details here. J.C. Hornbeck | Manageability Knowledge Engineer.. more »

The good folks at the Microsoft Security Response Center announced that the questions and answers from the November Security Bulletin webcast have been posted along with the video from the webcast itself.  You can get all the details at .. more »

Here is a quick tip for those that want to stop getting prompted to save changes to the Performance monitor console (especially when you have not made any changes). Just change the properties of the perfmon.msc file under \Windows\System32 to “Read-Only”. That way you can open the console from Run>perfmon.msc, view the details in the console and .. more »

This is a reminder that on Monday, Nov 16 the next in our on Windows Embedded Standard 2011 will be held. The details are: 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC - 7 hours) A Windows Embedded Standard 2011 image is built from a number of packages. In this session you'll learn about what constitutes a package and how multiple packages depend on each .. more »

Windows Embedded Standard 2009 forum has a great tip for users of . He gives details of how to write a DUA script that can launch a script, executable or other command line utility using the DUA EXECUTEPROCESS command, but without having to first launch a command prompt window. His basic conclusion is to add the following parameter to the DUA .. more »

Today, we released six security bulletins addressing a total of 15 vulnerabilities. Four affect Windows and Windows Server and two affect Microsoft Office products (Excel and Word). As we do every month, we have prepared our Risk & Impact and our Deployment Priority guidance to help customers assess risk to their environments and prioritize the .. more »

A number of new features are now available for installing on a Windows Embedded Standard 2009 database. These features are: .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Agent Prerequisites for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 This macro component contains the .. more »

I know this isnt WSUS specific but I thought it was something youd appreciate hearing about nonetheless. The Solution Accelerator team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). Designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process .. more »

I asked the FixIt team for this a while back and they have delivered.  Now if you ever run into the symptoms below the chances are good we can automatically fix it with just a few clicks of the mouse: You only receive this error message if you try to browse the Web site directly on the server. If you browse the Web site from a client computer, the W.. more »

Just a heads up but the folks at the MSRC just announced their Advance Notification for the November 2009 Security Bulletin Release: To help customers plan and prioritize for this month’s security updates, we wanted to let you know that we will be releasing 6 bulletins (three critical and three important) addressing 15 vulnerabilities, affecting Wi.. more »

are now available on the ECE for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and/or Microsoft Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, Update Rollup 1.0 and Service Pack 3. The security updates can be applied to the component database.This download is a cumulative update which incorporates all updates from prior months. Therefore you do not .. more »

I get this question every once in a while so I thought Id share what I learned here. We have two options to upgrade WSUS SP1 to SP2: is the WSUS SP2 update. If you want to see SP2 in the list of updates make sure you have selected Service Packs in the Classification list. Custom view has been added for Service Packs in the below screenshot. For .. more »

From the MSRC blog: Today we released an update 976749 that addresses two issues with MS09-054 that a limited number customers reported to us through our Customer Service and Support (CSS) group. These two issues can affect the proper display of web pages. For all the details see .. more »

I think it may surprise a lot of people in the industry that Microsoft (and most high visibility software vendors) invests a lot of time and effort into their testing. Quality assurance is so key to the success of our products that every team in the company has personnel whose lives are dedicated to just insuring that quality is in the product. We .. more »