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Urgent Microsoft RDP patch (MS12-020)

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A critical vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is addressed by a patch that Microsoft released for the March 2012 Patch Tuesday (patch MS12-020).

Exploit code for the RDP vulnerability has been made available online, so it’s especially important that this patch be applied as soon as possible to any Windows machines that have RDP enabled. Note that the campus Minimum Security Standard for Networked Devices dictates that

All currently available security patches must be applied on a schedule appropriate to the severity of the risk they mitigate.

We encourage you to apply all relevant Microsoft updates for any Windows machines you manage.

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Problems Activating Windows 7 or Microsoft Project

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New installs of Windows 7 (either using WDS network install or a DVD install) or of Microsoft Project (available on WINSWW) require activation of their license over the network.

Coincidentally, the license keys for both of these products have reached the limit set for our usage, so activation attempts are failing. We have already made requests to SHI (our campus software and license provider) to increase the limits set on our Multiple Activation Key (MAK) licenses, and hope to have resolution soon.

Microsoft Project should continue to work for up to 30 days without activation. Windows 7, unfortunately, may only work normally for 3 days unless activation completes.
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Feb 2012 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012.

PRINT and WINTERM will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM will be unavailable till 10:00am, Wednesday, February 15th, 2012.

Resolved as of 2012-02-16 13:08:00