Microsoft typically releases updates once per month. If
a computer does not receive updates, or the updates fail to install
correctly, the computer might be vulnerable to security exploits that
it would be protected from if the updates were installed. Therefore,
it's critical to the security of your client computers that you verify
updates are regularly installed.
You can view the update history to verify that an individual
computer has updates installed. To view the update history, follow
these steps:
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Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Windows
Update.
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The Windows Update window appears. Click the View Update
History link.
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The View Update History window appears, as shown in Figure 1. To view the
details of an update, double-click it.
You can use WSUS or Configuration Manager 2007 to monitor update
installation throughout the computers that you manage in your
organization. To audit computers on a network-by-network basis
(including computers that are not members of your AD DS, but that you
do have administrative credentials to), you can use the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA). As shown in
Figure 2 MBSA scans a
network to find computers running Windows, connects to them, and
checks the current update level.
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MORE INFO MBSA
For more information about MBSA and to
download the free tool, visit http://www.microsoft.com/mbsa/.
