Brief note for people who are concerned with the topic of security under Active Directory and AzureAD (today called EntraID). Vincent Le Toux has released his PingCastle version 3.1 at the beginning of August 2023. PingCastle can be used to perform a security audit in Active Directory & AzureAD within seconds. The project is available in C# source code and can be used partially free of charge under certain licenses.
[German]As of August 8, 2023, Microsoft has patched other software in addition to security updates for Windows and Office. There is a security update for Internet Explorer for various Windows Server versions. And there are also security updates for the .NET Framework for various versions. However, these .NET updates cause installation problems under Windows 11. Below is an addendum to these updates as a collective post.
[German]There are reports that users of the Office 365 suite are suddenly getting error 1001 when trying to log in. An IT service provider contacted me about this because this was occurring with their customers. However, there is a workaround on how to fix this.
[German]Addendum from the August 2023 patchday, which caused issues for administrators of Microsoft Exchange 2016/2019. On non-English systems the installation failed and the Exchange server was partially dead afterwards. I had warned here my German users in my articles and Microsoft withdrew the security updates August 2023 for Exchange. Now Microsoft has published a support article with a workaround for these problems.
[German]Microsoft has released security updates for Windows and Office as of August 8, 2023. For Microsoft Office, there were security updates for the MSI versions for both version 2013 and Office 2016. The C2R variants of Office 2016 and 2019 should also have received their corresponding update. Microsoft is calling these updates "Defense in Depth Updates", which is intended to break an attack chain in Windows Search. Here is some more information about it.
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[German]On Jugust 8, 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 this month. Below is an overview of the available updates.
Brief hint for Windows users who work with the credentials management to have credentials saved. Instead of deleting entries manually, this can be done with a few lines of batch code. I recently came via Twitter across the corresponding batch program and put the information as a tip here in the blog.
[German]As of August 8, 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 August 8, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft patch day), 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 problems. Continue reading
[German]On August 8 (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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