Not having been a fan of the MBSA product from Microsoft I was interested to see this new offering from Microsoft. They are now providing an inventory analyzer that will check for hotfixes that MBSA overlooks.
Really unsure why this is necessary. Why they could not have incorporated this into the the baseline tool?
Anyway, from Microsoft:
The SMS Extended Security Update Inventory tool is a scan tool built for the sole purpose of helping customers determine SMS client computers that may need security updates that are not detectable using the existing SMS Security Update Inventory Tool built on MBSA. Like the SMS Software Update Inventory tool, this tool also has the instructions for locating each applicable update, downloading it from Microsoft, and deploying it using SMS . The SMS Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is built on Enterprise Scan Tool (EST) detection technology. For more information about the exact detection capabilities of EST and how it differs from MBSA, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 894193. For more information on the SMS Extended Security Update Inventory Tool, please see the included user guide and release notes.
Tags: MBSA, Security Update Tool, Microsoft Security Tool
