Category Archives: Windows

Update fixes Windows AppX installer 0-day vulnerability CVE-2021-43890 (used by Emotet)

Posted on 2021-12-16 by guenni

[German]Another addendum from the December 2021 patchday regarding the AppX installer used in Windows. Microsoft has closed the Windows AppX Installer spoofing vulnerability CVE-2021-43890 with an update. The Emotet gang has been trying to exploit this vulnerability to infect systems … Continue reading →

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Patchday: Windows 11 Updates (December 14, 2021)

Posted on 2021-12-15 by guenni

[German]On December 14, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft has also released a cumulative update for Windows 11, which was released on October 5, 2021. The update is supposed to fix various issues. Here are some … Continue reading →

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Patchday: Updates für Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 (Dezember 14, 2021)

Posted on 2021-12-15 by guenni

[German]On December 14, Microsoft has released various updates for Windows 7 SP1 systems that are still in ESU support. Also with ESU Bypass v11 the whole thing still works. But these security updates are also available for Windows Server 2008 … Continue reading →

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Patchday: Windows 8.1/Server 2012-Updates (December 14, 2021)

Posted on 2021-12-15 by guenni

[German]On December 14, Microsoft released various updates for Windows 8.1. However, these security updates are also available for Windows Server 2012 R2. Here is some information on the Monthly Rollup and Security only updates for these operating systems.

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Patchday: Windows 10 Updates (December 14, 2021)

Posted on 2021-12-15 by guenni

[German]On December 14, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), various cumulative updates for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to the current version) were released. Here are some details about each of the Patchday security … Continue reading →

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

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Windows, TPM, MEM, and Intune: Issues when changing the motherboard

Posted on 2021-12-15 by guenni

[German]I'm posting a short piece of information here on the blog because this topic will probably affect more and more administrators of Windows 10/11 systems in the coming months and years. We are securing the systems more and more, among … Continue reading →

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Windows 11: Microsoft fixes NVMe SSD Performance Issue

Posted on 2021-12-13 by guenni

[German]In Windows 11, there was a performance issue with certain NVMe SSDs. With certain random write operations, the throughput performance dropped up to 45% compared to Windows 10. The whole thing was discussed in forums on the Internet. After I … Continue reading →

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Windows 7/Server 2008/R2 ESU support for the third year (2022)

Posted on 2021-12-12 by guenni

[German]If you want to continue to have security updates for Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in 2022, you need the ESU package for the third year. Microsoft is now releasing the relevant keys for … Continue reading →

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Chrome 96.0.4664.93

Posted on 2021-12-08 by guenni

[German]Google has released an update to Google Chrome 96.0.4664.93 for Windows, Mac and Linux (and version 96.0.4664.92 for Android) as of December 6, 2021. It is a maintenance update that also closes some vulnerabilities. Here's a quick overview.

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Windows 11: Performance issues with NVMe-SSDs?

Posted on 2021-12-07 by guenni

[German]A brief question for the readers of this blog who are already running Windows 11 on NVMe SSDs. What about the performance in this constellation? There are reports from users in forums who complain about slow accesses with NVMe SSDs … Continue reading →

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