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Microsoft Updates
Microsoft issues updates and service packs for their operating systems and applications periodically. One way they can be delivered is using Microsoft SUS and WSUS, which can deliver updates automatically via a component already in their OS, which can be turned on. This can cause problems, however, when conflicts arise between a Service Pack and a patch. This happened in 2005 with Windows Service Pack 2, which was scheduled to automatically download but included patch conflicts that could cause other problems. Organizations that had machines with automatic download turned on, encountered service interruptions as a result.
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The following is the terminology Microsoft uses to describe their software adopts. UpdateEXPERT Premium can deliver updates to all your machines with no worries about causing more problems than they resolve:
Connector
This is the name of a software component that supports connections between software programs.
Critical Update
This is what Microsoft calls fixes that are widely released and that repair critical bugs that are not security issues.
Additional Information: Critical updates are available for customers to download and are accompanied by a Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
Development Kit
This is software used by developers to compose new programs. A kit might contain a compiler, an editor and a visual builder.
Driver
A software component that supports new hardware is called a driver.
Feature Pack
This is the name given to additional features that are issued after a larger product release. As the name implies, it contains features not available in the original release.
Guidance
When documentation, scripts or sample code are issued with a product or technology, they help the customer better deploy and use the product – these tools are called guidance.
Hotfix
This is the name give to a collection of files created to fix a specific customer product issue. They are not meant to be used by anyone but the customer for whom the hotfix is designed.
Security Update
Security updates are the most critical fixes a vendor can issue. They are built to fix security-related vulnerabilities and are rated according to the severity of the problem addressed – ie low, moderate, severe or critical.
Service Pack
Service packs are a collection of updates, critical updates, hotfixes and security updates and other fixes that are released all at once. They usually address operating system vulnerabilities or customer design change requests or feature requests.
Software Update
A software update is any update, update rollup, service pack, feature pack, critical update, security update, or hotfix that is used to improve or to fix a software product after it is initially released.
Tool
A utility or feature that is created to help complete a task or a group of tasks is called a tool.
Update
An update is a broadly released fix for a specific problem. An update addresses a non-critical, non-security-related bug.
Update Rollup
An update rollup usually targets particular areas such as security or product components. It is a cumulative, tested set of security updates, hotfixes and critical updates that are packaged together for easy deployment.
Upgrade
When a software product is replaced by a new version of the same package, it’s called an upgrade.
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