MS Security Patch testing

[phillipsloan]

We want to limit our testing of MS security patches only to those applications that are impacted by the patch. What tools are there out there to determine what dlls, exes, etc are updated by a given MS security patch without actually having to install the patch?

If we have to install the patch, are there tools to scan the system before and after the patch to determine what files were updated?

I cannot find any such list of files the patch updates on Microsoft's web site.

Thanks.

 

[tfg13]

Look under the Overview section of the update, and open the "security update information" section, look under the version you want to know what is changed, and look at the file information section. All the .dll's are listed that are changed.