[German]Microsoft has updated the Edge browser in the stable channel to version 117.0.2045.31 as of September 15, 2023 (thanks to readers for the tips). This branch brings some new features to Edge for Business. At the same time, Edge 109.0.1518.140 was released on this date to close the critical CVE-2023-4863 vulnerability in older systems running Windows 7 SP1- and Windows Server 2012 R2.
[German]Brief note and question for the administrators among the readership. I just received a reader note that Microsoft has received an update of Edge Build 109.0.1518.140 on WSUS and that there may be conflicts because more recent versions are overwritten. There doesn't seem to be a changelog yet – but I have a suspicion.
[German]Microsoft has also released updates for Office 2016 on patchday, September 12, 2023, that are supposed to eliminate vulnerabilities. I got now reports, the Office 2016 update KB5002457 is causing issues and Office can no longer be used. The only solution is to uninstall this update.
[German]On September 12, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. With the April 2023 patchday, support for Office 2013 ended – but vulnerabilities were still closed in August. Below is an overview of the available updates. Continue reading
[German]As of September 12, 2023, various security updates have been released for Windows Server 2008 R2 (in its 4th ESU year) and for Windows Server 2012/R2 (the updates may still install on Windows 7 SP1). Here is an overview of these updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012/R2.
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[German]On September 12, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for Windows 11 22H1 and 22H2. In addition, Windows Server 2022 received an update. Here are some details about these updates, which are supposed to fix vulnerabilities as well as issues.
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[German]On September 12 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to current version) as well as for the Windows Server counterparts. Here are some details on the respective security updates for Windows 10.
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[German]On September 12, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates fix 61 CVE vulnerabilities, two are 0-day vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on Patchday.
Margie Clinton, Group Product Manager on the Outlook team, and Robert Novitskey, partner engineering manager for Outlook for Windows have provided an update on the new Outlook for Windows (app) via video. That's according to this Techcommunity post, where the video can be accessed.
[German]Brief information for Thunderbird users, who observe the mail client suddenly can't sync mails from Microsoft accounts (hotmail.com or outlook.com etc.). A manual intervention is necessary, where JavaScript has to be activated and then the authentication of the Microsoft accounts has to be included again.
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