Hello, Bill here.

I wanted to let you know that we just posted our Advance Notification for next week´s bulletin release which will occur on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 around 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

It is important to remember that while the information posted below is intended to help with your planning, because it is preliminary information, it is subject to change.

As part of our regularly scheduled bulletin release, we´re currently planning to release two security bulletins:

·        One Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Windows/Microsoft Office rated as Critical, and one affecting Windows rated as Important. These updates may require a restart and will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.

As we do each month, the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool will be updated.

We are also planning to release high-priority, non-security updates on Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) as well as high-priority, non-security updates on Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). For additional information, please see the Other Information section of the Advanced Notification.

As always, we´ll be holding the November edition of the monthly security bulletin webcast on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008 at 11 a.m., Pacific Standard Time.  We will review this month´s release and take your questions live on-air with answers from our panel of experts. As a friendly reminder, if you can´t make the live webcast, you can listen to it on-demand as well at the same URL. In addition, we´ll also be posting the text of the questions and answers from each month´s webcast. You can see a full listing of the posted questions and answers on this page.