Missing KB Articles for Today's Updates???

[Keith C. Jakobs, MCP]

Greetings All:

Has anyone noticed that a majority of the updates released today by
Microsoft refer to Knowledge Base articles that don't exist???

I tried looking up several of the articles refered to by KB number via SUS
services on a domain, as well as via Automatic Updates on local WIndows 2000
Systems. I tried looking them up at various times of the day too. SOme of
the articles I tried to reference included:

883939
893066
896422
890046
896358

Usually, I like to review the technical details before I deploy patches even
on test stations, usually to determine the potential impact and criticality
before I allocate resources to address the vulnerability. But the fact that
I am unable to find referenced Knowledge Base articles has left me concerned
about the legitimacy of the updates I have received.

Anyone know what is up? Are the KB servers not quite up-to-date yet? By
some oversight, did internal only KB #'s get released in the update details?
How can I find the technical information and corresponding bulletins for
these patches?

If anyone who knows what is up with this would please provide some
explanation, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

Keith C. Jakobs, MCP

 

[Charles E Finkenbiner]

Hi,

Greetings All:

Has anyone noticed that a majority of the updates released today by
Microsoft refer to Knowledge Base articles that don't exist???

I tried looking up several of the articles refered to by KB number via SUS
services on a domain, as well as via Automatic Updates on local WIndows 2000
Systems. I tried looking them up at various times of the day too. SOme of
the articles I tried to reference included:

883939
893066
896422
890046
896358

Usually, I like to review the technical details before I deploy patches even
on test stations, usually to determine the potential impact and criticality
before I allocate resources to address the vulnerability. But the fact that
I am unable to find referenced Knowledge Base articles has left me concerned
about the legitimacy of the updates I have received.

Anyone know what is up? Are the KB servers not quite up-to-date yet? By
some oversight, did internal only KB #'s get released in the update details?
How can I find the technical information and corresponding bulletins for
these patches?

If anyone who knows what is up with this would please provide some
explanation, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

Keith C. Jakobs, MCP

I went to the Microsoft download area and found all 6 documents. 1 of
the documents had to have 'kb' along with the number. The other 5
documents were found using only the number.


Hope this helps,

CEF

 

[Keith C. Jakobs, MCP]

Thanks Charles,

Yup, they sure are there now. Guess they just werent ready or the KB
servers couldn't handle the load.

MS... you may want to make sure you have your KB articles available when you
release so many critical patches next time around.

Thanks again.

Keith C. Jakobs, MCP