Advance Notification for August 12th 2014 Security Bulletin Release

Today, we provide advance notification for the release of nine Security Bulletins. Two of these are rated Critical, and the remaining seven are rated Important in severity. These Updates are for SQL Server, SharePoint, OneNote, .NET, Microsoft Windows, and Internet Explorer.

As per our usual process, we’ve scheduled the Security Bulletin release for the second Tuesday of the month, August 12, 2014, at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Revisit this blog then for analysis of the relative impact, as well as deployment guidance, together with a brief video overview of the month’s Updates.

We will also plan to have our Security Bulletin Webcast, scheduled on Wednesday, August 13, at 11 a.m. PDT, on our Trustworthy Computing UStream Channel. Until then, please review the ANS summary page for more information to help you prepare for Security Bulletin testing and deployment. Don’t forget, you can also follow us on Twitter at @MSFTSecResponse.

Thank you,

Dustin Childs Group Manager,

Response Communications Microsoft Trustworthy Computing

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As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification Service. This advance notification is intended to help our customers plan for effective deployment of security updates, and includes information about the number of new security updates being released, the software affected, severity levels of vulnerabilities, and information about any detection tools relevant to the updates.

To help customers prioritize the monthly security updates with any non-security updates on Microsoft Update (MU), Windows Update (WU), and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) being released the same day, the bulletin advance notification also provides information about:

• Updated versions of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
• Non-security, high-priority updates on Microsoft Update, Windows Update, and Windows Server Update Services

Note that the bulletin advance notification will only provide information about non-security, high-priority updates that are released the same day as the security updates. The bulletin advance notification does not provide information about non-security updates released on other days.

The bulletin advance notification is normally made available three business days before the regular security update release on the second Tuesday of the month. Upon release of the security updates, the bulletin advance notification is replaced by the security bulletin summary, which is the definitive announcement of the security update release for the month.

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