[German]Microsoft has integrated a feature called Delivery Optimization starting with Windows 10. It's a solution designed for use in large environments with a large number of devices, different content sizes, etc. The feature helps organizations manage bandwidth allocation for Microsoft content downloads (updates, feature updates). But how do you test something like this, and what else should you know?
[German]Users of Windows 10 version 20H2 to 22H2 may be experiences a bug that causes the system to freeze or the desktop or taskbar to disappear shortly. This is caused by an August 2022 update. Microsoft has now confirmed the isse and is reversing the buggy fix in question via Known Issues Rollback (KIR).
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[German]I have often reported about firmware updates for printers here in the blog. One point are security updates that close vulnerabilities in printers. The other point are firmware updates that reduce the functionality of a printer – for example to the use of consumables (ink, toner) of the printer manufacturer. Recently, I was contacted by a blog reader who reported a firmware update that rendered a whole series of printers unusable. It's a bit late already, but I'm posting the case here on the blog as a warning.
[German]AActive Directory is a critical infrastructure and should be treated as such. But how do administrators secure their domain controllers against attacks? Microsoft published a support article SSecuring Domain Controllers Against Attack back in August. There you can find advice on how to secure domain controllers (DCs) against attackers. One of the points is Blocking Internet Access for Domain Controllers.
The developers have released WordPress version 6.1.1 on November 15, 2022. It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix 28 bugs in the core and 18 bugs in the block editor. Details can be found in the release notes.
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[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5019157 for Windows 11 version 21H2 on November 15, 2022. There are a number of new features and especially a long list of bug fixes. Below I give an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
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[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5020030 on November 15, 2022 (C-Week). This is supposed to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 21H2-21H2. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 10.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update to the email client to version 102.5.0 on November 15, 2022 (thanks to the reader for pointing this out). It's a bug-fix update that should fix a number of issues and also some vulnerabilities.
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[German]Today another observation from an administrator regarding update management via WSUS. On a Windows Server 2019, the defaults are set via GPO so that updates are automatically installed every Monday/Thursday at 1am and the server should be restarted afterwards. But with the November 2022 updates this did not work, the installation including reboot happened on Friday from 6pm, the day the administrator had approved the updates on WSUS.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released the versions 107.0.0 and 102.5.0 ESR of the Firefox browser on November 15, 2022. The ESR versions are maintenance updates that are supposed to fix bugs. Firefox 107 is a new development branch. In both updates, vulnerabilities are fixed. Thanks to the reader for the tip.
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