[German]On August 8, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 73 vulnerabilities, one is a 0-day. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on patchday.
[German]Another brief addendum from the July 2023 patchday, because the August 2023 security updates are luring around the corner. I received some user reports that July 2023 updates on Windows 10 (KB5028166) and Windows Server 2022 (KB5028171) are causing a black screen. In the case of Windows Server 2022, Supermicro server systems are particularly affected. Here's a brief summary, what's reported.
[German]Another small addendum to a problem with Outlook. In the blog, I had picked up on the annoying behavior that Outlook appointments have automatically become Teams meetings for some time. At the weekend, I came across a workaround and a blog reader has now also pointed me to this solution (thanks for that). In addition, Microsoft has corrected the behavior with a Teams plugin update.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Edge browser to versions 115.0.1901.200 and 114.0.1823.106 as of August 7, 2023, July 17. In addition to fixing bugs and performance issues, Chrome vulnerabilities and Edge vulnerability CVE-2023-38157 have been fixed in both versions (thanks to 1ST1 for pointing this out).
Mozilla developers had released the versions 116.0.0 and then 116.0.1 of the Firefox browser. Now, on August 7, 2023, version 116.0.2 was added as a new bug fix update. The release notes says: Fixes an issue that was causing keystrokes to be scrambled for users using ZoneAlarm anti-keylogger. (via)
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[German]Microsoft has revised the list of supported CPUs – some AMD processors have been added, but Intel CPUs have fallen out of support. And there is a report or speculation that Microsoft might block the so-called "bypass solution" to install Windows 11 on systems that are not compatible in the future.
[German]Microsoft had announced for quite some time that it would retire the voice assistant Cortana in Windows and rely on AI (CoPilot) instead. Now, the farewell of Cortana is coming faster than expected. Windows Insiders testing the latest builds of Windows 11 have the option to uninstall Cortana, and Microsoft has confirmed that the farewell will begin as early as August 2023.
[English]Microsoft plans soonto switch off the encryption methods TLS 1.0 and 1.1 still used by default in the Schannel protocol (starts in September 2023 with Windows 11 Insider Builds). Therefore, a quick note for administrators in enterprise environments: It might be helpful to enable Schannel event logging for monitoring. If not known, Microsoft has published a separate support post on this topic.
[German]Microsoft surprisingly fixed a vulnerability in the Azure environment as reported of Aufugst 4, 2023, with a patch originally scheduled for end of September 2023. Microsoft has been aware of the vulnerability since March 2023. The harsh criticism of the security culture at Microsoft by Tenable CEO Amit Yoran and the public response probably caused Microsoft to move. Addendum: But there are side effects from this patch.
[German]Reminder to Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 users and administrators, if this isn't on your radar, as of October 2023, support for connections from Office apps to Microsoft 365 services will end. Connections will still be able to be made, but there will no longer be support for issues. The information is not new, I had already pointed it out in 2022. Recently, however, the information has come under my eyes again.
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