I’m finding when I drill down to source severity for patches, there are some security updates (among others) listed under “unspecified” despite being “critical updates” or “security updates”. Any reason why these are considered unspecified?
Can you offer a few examples and then I can ask the application engineering team for some feedback?
-jgo
Fixlets and Tasks -> Fixlets only -> By Site -> Patches for Windows -> Unspecified
It contains the following MS Office Updates categorized as Security Updates:
Kb4011237
KB4011239
KB4011253
Kb4011274
Kb4011254
Kb4011275
And an example of a patch with a Critical Update category is
KB4131372 - Update for Windows 10 version 1709
These are all released in April/May, so it’s not like it’s so years old patches being unspecified.
Thank you. Checking. Adding more words to post so that I can hit reply.
The content properties in the Patches for Windows site are directly mapped to Microsoft’s definitions. The terminology can be confusing if you’re not accustomed to their (Microsoft’s) conventions. This TechNet article does a good job of summarizing and clarifying.
People often confuse category with severity. Hopefully the linked article clears it up for you.
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