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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The next root update, which was scheduled for November 17th, has been moved to November 23rd to give the team more time to work through issues with some of the partner test URLs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The next update package contains several new roots and multiple changes to add functionality to existing roots. This package also contains several root removals, but these are all removals
that partners requested and there are no involuntary removals in this package. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Once we deploy the November update, we will begin to develop the January release, which we’ve tentatively scheduled for January 17, 2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Jody Cloutier<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Senior Security Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="http://aka.ms/rootcert"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0563C1">Microsoft Trusted Root Certificate Program</span></b></a></span><b><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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