January 11 is Patch Tuesday. This month offers a small number of patches, only one critical. But Not among the patches are ones for the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine and Internet Explorer flaws found recently.

SharePoint Solutions has released Workflow Essentials for SharePoint 2010. This SharePoint add-on includes 24 new workflow activities and two new workflow conditions to SharePoint workflow creation possibilities.

Well, maybe not quite a barn. Microsoft describes the structure as "barn-like", so no animals are included but, the structure is open-air to cut down on the need for air conditioning.

Bidoma announced the immediate availability of their Bidoma Alert XL. Bidoma Alert XL is an add-in for Microsoft Excel enabling users to be notified of changes to data in spreadsheets. It works with Excel 2010, 2007, and 2003.

In this book author Chris Grover introduces you to the new tools in Office 2011 for Mac and shows you how to navigate with the Ribbon, use SmartArt graphics, Outlook, and work with Office Web Apps.

The exploit is in the wild and Microsoft is working on a patch. The patch will not be released "out of band", so Microsoft has issued instructions on a workaround. The vulnerability exists in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

This is not Patch Tuesday. Patch Tuesday is scheduled for January 11. So, if you got an email saying you needed to patch your system effective January 4, please ignore it. The "patch" contains malware.

Losing the mail for one user is bad, but perhaps forgivable. Losing it for hundreds is just awful. But losing all the mail and folders for thousands of users takes real skill. Or maybe that isn’t the right word.

The server has been running fine. Then there were some software updates that really needed to be applied. Then everything stopped working. It’s a familiar scene that can’t always be avoided.

The messages in 17,355 accounts were accidentally deleted on December 30 when systems tried to load balance between servers. Microsoft has restored some mail but is still working on the problem.