Category Archives: Update

Microsoft Patchday: Office, Flash, Windows (January 9, 2018)

[German]Microsoft's patchday on January 9, 2018 just brought us a few updates for Adobe Flash, Windows 10 V1709, Office and NET Framework so far. This is due the fact, that Microsoft already released some updates last week, to fix the … Continue reading

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Windows 10: Update KB4056892 kills AMD systems (Error 0x800f0845)

Update KB4056892 released by Microsoft in a hurry to mitigate the Meltdown/Spectre vulnerability seems to come with unpleasant side effects. Computers with AMD CPUs refuse to start with error code 0x800f0845.

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Windows 7/8.1: Updates KB4056894, KB4056895 released

Microsoft has released Monthly Rollup Update KB4056894 for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. And also Monthly Rollup Update KB4056895 for Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 is available.

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IE require DOM storage to display Microsoft’s KB article

[German]A German blog reader informed me a day ago about a strange issue. He was no more able to retrieve Microsoft KB articles from the update history in Internet Explorer. After some investigation we found out, that Microsoft is in … Continue reading

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Critical Security Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server (01/03/2018)

[German]In addition to updates for Windows 10, Microsoft also released various critical (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 and the corresponding server versions as of January 3,2018. These also address the Intel CPU vulnerability. Here is an … Continue reading

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

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Windows 10: Critical Updates (01/03/2018)

[German]Microsoft released several cumulative updates for various Windows 10 builds on January 3, 2018. This addresses the Intel CPU bug and mitigates vulnerabilities in Edge and Internet Explorer. Here is an overview of what you should know.

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Critical Updates for Windows and Browser (01/03/2018)

[German]On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released critical updates for its supported Windows versions as well as for the browsers Edge and Internet Explorer. Here is an overview.

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 Patch to fix Intel Bug

[German]Microsoft starts rolling out an out-of-band update to mitigate (fix) the Intel CPU vulnerability bug within Windows. Currently the update for Windows 10 is available, patches for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 as well as the server counterparts will follow.

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Is Microsofts (Word) DDE-Patch failed partially?

[German]In December 2017, Microsoft released security updates for Microsoft Office to disable DDE functionality. However, the vulnerability may not be completely mitigated, because a new malware campaign addresses the DDE vulnerability.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (January 2, 2018)

[German]Yesterday, first Tuesday of the month, (January 2, 2018), Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 2016. Here are an overview of this updates.

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