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I have a query on missing security updates on Windows servers. I have done some MBSA (baseline security analyser) scans of some database servers, and it flags in a few cases rather old updates, e.g. MS016-057 (critical) as &quot;missing and are not approved by your system administrator&quot;. Rather than flag this immediately as risk to the technical support team, do more recent MS security updates ever superseded or have a cumulative effect whereby these older missing updates are no longer relevant or required. or is it a case than if MBSA says they are missing, they need to be installed, regardless of all the newer updates released more recently which in most cases had been applied.
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I have a query on missing security updates on Windows servers. I have done some MBSA (baseline security analyser) scans of some database servers, and it flags in a few cases rather old updates, e.g. MS016-057 (critical) as "missing and are not approved by your system administrator". Rather than flag this immediately as risk to the technical support team, do more recent MS security updates ever superseded or have a cumulative effect whereby these older missing updates are no longer relevant or required. or is it a case than if MBSA says they are missing, they need to be installed, regardless of all the newer updates released more recently which in most cases had been applied.

microsoft updates, supersede/cumulative

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