Tools for Your Patch Management Arsenal

Microsoft offers a wide range of products that can assist you in deploying security updates to your organization.

Microsoft Download Center

The Microsoft Download Center (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/) is a Web site dedicated to offering a wide range of updates, tools, trial software, documents—just about everything. In a security update context, the Microsoft Download Center is important because it allows you to search for a particular security update and download it. Once the update is downloaded, you can install the security updates manually, incorporate them into custom-built scripts, or package them for deployment through a patch management system. For examples of scripts that were written in

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