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[German]Small addendum from this week. Microsoft had released several preview updates for Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2019/2022 as well as .NET Framework on September 20, 2022. However, it looks like Microsoft withdrew these updates from WSUS (and also in ConfigMgr) as Superseded shortly after they were released back on September 21, 2022. Addendum: Microsoft has now confirmed the issue.
Microsoft has released unscheduled update KB15498768 for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (current branch, versions 2103, 2107, 2111, 2203, 2207) as of September 20, 2022. This update is intended to fix the vulnerability CVE-2022-37972. Details can be found in the support article NTLM connection fallback update for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
[German]There is a critical remote command execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-36804) in the version management for software development projects, Atlassian Bitbucket. Atlassian had already published a security advisory and a product update for the vulnerability, which was rated critical, at the end of August 2022. Now the discoverers seem to have released details about the vulnerability.
[German]I got reports from a few people complaining that their Windows 10 clients didn't get updates via WSUS in September 2022. Then it turned out that their clients were already upgraded to version 22H2 via WSUS in August 2022 via an enablement update. But this is a bit strange, because the Windows 10 2022 update, referred here as Windows 10 22H2, has not yet been officially released by Microsoft.
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[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update to the email client to version 102.3.0 as of September 20, 2022 (thanks to the reader for pointing this out). It's a bug-fix update, which is supposed to fix a number of issues. Because somehow, the 102 development thread of Thunderbird is a disaster (see Thunderbird 102er: The problem bear).
[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5017381 for Windows Server 2022 as of September 20, 2022 (C-Week). This update corrects a lot of issues in Server 2022. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows Server 2022.
[German]Microsoft has released optional cumulative (preview) update KB5017383 for Windows 11 as of September 20, 2022. Other preview updates for Windows are described in separate posts. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5017379 on September 20, 2022 (C-Week). This is intended to fix numerous bugs in Windows Server 2019 as well as Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC, etc. Below, I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 10.
[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5017380 on September 20, 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. This update disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1.
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MVP:
2013 – 2016
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