Microsoft delivers new patching tools
After several delays, Microsoft has delivered an overhaul of its corporate patching tool and the promised successor to its Windows Update service.
In addition, the company set a date of mid-July for delivery of an add-on to Systems Management Server 2003 that lets large organizations inventory and install Microsoft updates. At that time, small and midsize businesses will get Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, which is a tool to check their systems to see if they are up to date on their Microsoft fixes.
The announcements were made Monday at TechEd, Microsoft's annual customer conference, which is being held this week in Orlando, Fla.
The corporate patching tool, called Windows Server Update Services, or WSUS, was originally slated for release in the first half of last year.
