Companies expecting a new patch management tool from Microsoft this summer will have to wait a little longer. Microsoft said Tuesday that Windows Update Services, a new tool designed to let system ...

Microsoft offers some powerful patch management tools for free, but they are not designed to scale to very large corporations. SMS has the ability to support a large organization, but it is a bit ...

Microsoft itself has several: There is, first, the basic Windows update most consumers and home users use. It allows each workstation to independently reach out to Microsoft’s update servers for ...

It provides a management infrastructure that also contains MU (Microsoft Update), the successor to the consumer-centric Windows Update service. Microsoft plans to push users toward the MU platform ...

Microsoft overhauling "broken" patch management system Occasionally, Microsoft's patches have been known to cause worse problems than the ones they were programmed to solve.

Patch management and antispyware technologies will be a boon for solution providers in 2005, according to Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Security Business and Technology Unit.

Patch management wasn’t a burning concern for many users of Microsoft Corp.’s Systems Management Server when they purchased earlier editions of the software. But that mind-set is changing.