Category Archives: Update

January 2019 patchday issues

[German]The updates Microsoft released on January 8, 2019, are causing major issues with Windows and other applications. Here's a summary of what I've seen over the last few days.

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Firmware Update for Surface Laptop and Laptop 2

Microsoft has released new firmware updates for its Surface Laptop and Surface Laptop 2. These are intended to improve the stability of the devices.

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Fix for the Windows 7 SMB network bug caused by Update KB4480970/KB4480960

[German]On January 12, 2019, Microsoft released a fix for affected Windows 7 systems to fix the issue caused by the January 2019 update when accessing network shares. 

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Microsoft confirms Access 97 MDB bug in Jet Database Engine caused by Windows January 2019 Updates

[German]Microsoft has confirmed the database error when accessing Access 97 .mdb databases via the Jet Database Engine. The problem is caused by the January 8, 2019 security updates in all supported versions of Windows.

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Microsoft Patchday: Other Updates January 8, 2019

[German]As of January 8, 2019 (Patchday), Microsoft has released additional updates for Internet Explorer, Windows Server, etc.. In this blog post the respective patches are added, which are not included in the remaining posts linked at the end of the … Continue reading

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Firefox 64.0.2

Mozilla's developer have released Firefox 64.0.2 for Windows, Linux and macOS. This is a maintenance update which fixes bugs. The tip came in from a blog reader.

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Windows January 2019 Updates breaks access to Access DBs

[German]A brief warning for users are using Windows application accessing MS Access 97 databases. Windows security updates from January 8, 2019, breaks access to MS Access 97 databases (affects all Windows versions). An "unknown database format" error occurs. Here are … Continue reading

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Microsoft explains the Windows 7 KMS activation issue

[German]On January 8, 2019, some administrators in enterprise environments observed KMS activation errors on Windows 7 clients. Windows 7 was reported as 'not genuine' (error code 0xC004F200). Now Microsoft has provided some explanation.

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Update KB971033/KB4480960/KB4480970 bricks Windows 7 Genuine (0xc004f200)

[German]New day, new problem: Microsoft probably released the old update KB971033 again the night before. As it looks, Windows 7 is no longer activated after installing the update and is reported as not genuine. Addendum: It's related to Windows 7 … Continue reading

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (January 8, 2019)

[German]As of January 8, 2019 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft has released several security updates for supported Microsoft Office versions and products such as Sharepoint.

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