Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 8 is now available via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

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If you manage your organization’s PCs using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) I’m pleased to announce that we have made Internet Explorer 8 available via this technology for the following languages and platforms:









Internet Explorer 8 releases on WSUS for August 25, 2009




Windows Vista



All supported languages




Windows Server 2008



All supported languages




Windows Server 2003



All supported languages




Windows XP



English Arabic Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Simplified) Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese (Portugal) Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish




Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008



Internet Explorer 8 Language Packs


On September 22, 2009 all supported languages will be available via WSUS, with the release of the following versions of Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP:









Internet Explorer 8 releases on WSUS for September 22, 2009




Windows XP



Bosnian (Cyrillic) Bosnian (Latin) Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Estonian Hindi Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Romanian Serbian (Cyrillic) Serbian (Latin) Slovenian Slovakian Thai Ukranian Vietnamese Albanian Assamese Basque Bengali (Bangladesh) Bengali (India) Gujarati Indonesian Kannada Kazakh Konkani Malay (Malaysia) Malayalam Marathi Punjabi Tamil Telugu



How do I control my Internet Explorer 8 deployment?


Internet Explorer 8 is available in the “Update rollup†category, and will appear in your WSUS administration console as follows:

Note that even if Auto-Approve for the “Update Rollup†category is on, Internet Explorer 8 will not automatically be deployed- you must approve the Internet Explorer 8