Summary:

 

Our Real Time Collaboration (RTC) Sustained Engineering Team has recently released two updates:

 

Communicator 2007 R2 hotfix rollup package: June 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972042

 

Update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2: June, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972041

 

The Office Communicator R2 hotfix rollup package (972042) will be made available via Microsoft Update, the Microsoft Update Catalog Server, as well as Windows Software Update Services (WSUS).  This release is scheduled to be available today (June 15, 2009) through these distribution channels shorly after 10:00am Pacific time.

 

The Office Communications Server R2 hotfix rollup package (972041) will be made available via Microsoft Update, the Microsoft Update Catalog Server, but not through Windows Software Update Services (WSUS).  This release is scheduled to be available tomorrow (June 16, 2009) through these distribution channels shorly after 10:00am Pacific time.

 

 

Issue:

 

The update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will only be made available via Microsoft Update and the Microsoft Update Catalog Server, but not through WSUS.  The reason for this absence on WSUS is due to the fact that this package contains a change to a kernel-mode binary, which will cause a prompt (thereby interrupting the automated installation process).  For this reason we are not publishing this particular update to WSUS.  Moving forward, we are exploring various approaches to suppress these prompts on future updates.

 

In the meantime, for customers who intend on installing the Update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (972041) and are using WSUS, they would need to import this from the Microsoft Update Catalog server if they want to deploy this update through Microsoft Update.

 

 

More Information:

 

For more information on how to import this update into WSUS using Microsoft Update, please refer to:

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708583.aspx