This week, ITS are releasing security patches for UC machines – laptops that you might have at home, and possibly the desktops that you connect to remotely. Their announcement (edited) follows:

Important: If you are working from home using a UC computer (typically one of the laptops) please run the updates from Software Centre as soon as possible, rather than waiting for the deadline to pass. Instructions for installing updates from Software Centre are at the end of this email.

UC Desktop PCs  will have the updates available in the  software centre from 6pm Friday 1st May.  The updates will install automatically on Friday 8th May after 10pm and a restart will be enforced during the update process.

In order to ensure Windows computers patch smoothly, we are recommending staff and postgraduates start installing updates and log out of their computers when they finish work on 8th May. If a computer is off or in sleep mode overnight, updates will be installed the next time the computer is powered on.

Manual Installation
Instructions for UC  computers to manually install the updates from software centre:

Run Software Centre from the start menu. If you cannot see the application, the shortcut is available under the Microsoft System Center folder. If software centre does not start, please contact the service desk for help.

On the left hand side there is a tab called Updates. Click on the tab to show the updates still to be installed. On the top right, there is a link called Update All. Click on this, and the updates will download and install.