All:

I'm desperately trying to understand how to obtain a complete list of all
known hotfixes, updates, roll-up updates, patches, security updates, critical
updates, OS updates -- in effect, ANY update for Windows Vista RTM by
Microsoft since launch.

The Windows Catalog (BETA) has a search function, but I can't quite
understand how to use it. I cannot filter and it's extremely frustrating.

Does Microsoft product a COMPLETE, UP-TO-DATE list of Fixes for Vista? If
so, where? If it is the catalog (mentioned previously), then can someone
please explain how to do a proper query? It's just not evident how to do
this.

Many thanks...

"Jeffrey Carlson" <JeffreyCarlson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:26180C3D-6315-4F27-8448-26914099FE40@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> All:
>
> I'm desperately trying to understand how to obtain a complete list of all
> known hotfixes, updates, roll-up updates, patches, security updates,
> critical
> updates, OS updates -- in effect, ANY update for Windows Vista RTM by
> Microsoft since launch.
>
> The Windows Catalog (BETA) has a search function, but I can't quite
> understand how to use it. I cannot filter and it's extremely frustrating.
>
> Does Microsoft product a COMPLETE, UP-TO-DATE list of Fixes for Vista? If
> so, where? If it is the catalog (mentioned previously), then can someone
> please explain how to do a proper query? It's just not evident how to do
> this.
>
> Many thanks...[/color]

Jeffrey - what exactly are you trying to do?
The Catalog takes a simple search string like Windows Vista and then you
press Search and it will show you all the entries that match that.
If you want something a little more technical just set up a WSUS 3.0 server
and it will down load all the catalog information (and fixes for you).

Of course an end user has only to enable automatic updates to ensure
themselves of being up to date as anything you do will be potentially out of
date unless you take an automated feed such as WSUS.

Please feel free to explain what you want to do and maybe we can assist you
further.

--

Mike Brannigan

Are you looking for a list of Hotfixes in KB articles that have not been
released to the public as of yet as well? These are only available from MS
Support. The last I saw there were 150+ Hotfixes not yet released. These
will probably be part of SP1.

"Jeffrey Carlson" <JeffreyCarlson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:26180C3D-6315-4F27-8448-26914099FE40@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> All:
>
> I'm desperately trying to understand how to obtain a complete list of all
> known hotfixes, updates, roll-up updates, patches, security updates,
> critical
> updates, OS updates -- in effect, ANY update for Windows Vista RTM by
> Microsoft since launch.
>
> The Windows Catalog (BETA) has a search function, but I can't quite
> understand how to use it. I cannot filter and it's extremely frustrating.
>
> Does Microsoft product a COMPLETE, UP-TO-DATE list of Fixes for Vista? If
> so, where? If it is the catalog (mentioned previously), then can someone
> please explain how to do a proper query? It's just not evident how to do
> this.
>
> Many thanks...[/color]