[German]A brief update from this week. Blog reader Ingo contacted me immediately after Patch Day because he had encountered issues with his mouse in Win RE. Microsoft has now officially confirmed that there may be issues with USB keyboards and USB mice in Win RE. Windows 11 24-H2 – 25H2 and Windows Server 2025 are affected. Here is a brief overview of the situation.
[German]On October 14, 2025, Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 has expired and Microsoft will no longer provide support for them. This is an opportunity to think about your situation. You could continue to use these versions securely for another five years. You could switch to Microsoft 365 and let Microsoft take care of you. Or you could choose to exit – as some organizations have done.
[German]Windows systems that had the SenseShield driver sprotect.sys installed could not previously run Windows 11 24H2—they experienced blue screens and crashes. The problem has now been solved, and Microsoft has lifted the upgrade blocker for Windows 11 24H2 that was related to SenseShield technology.
[German]Microsoft had been announcing it as a "big event" for days—now it's clear what they meant. All computers running Windows 11 (probably 24H2 / 25H2) are to be upgraded with AI functions to become AI companions that "users can talk to." At least, that's the fever dream from Redmond, although the whole thing is supposed to be optional (for now).
[German]Update KB5066835 from October 14, 2025 (as well as the preview update from September) for Windows 11 24H2-25H2 and Windows Server 2025, comes with a bug. This causes Internet Information Server (IIS) and thus the localhost function to no longer work. This cripples some applications. Microsoft has confirmed the issue and also provided a KIR solution.
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[German]Brief addendum – VMware released both the new version VMware Workstation Pro 25H for Windows and VMware Fusion Pro 25H2 for macOS on October 14, 2025.
[German]A feature change causes administrators of large Active Directory environments to encounter problems when installing the September 2025 update KB5065426 for Server 2025. However, there is a workaround.
[German]I'm posting a note here on the blog about patch day issues related to Windows 11 24H2/25H2. There are indications that the KB5066835 update from October 14, 2025 causes localhost to become unresponsive. Some users uninstalled the update to get the issue fixed. But there are two other workarounds.
[German]On October 14, 2025 (the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patch Day), Microsoft released several security updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. This month, serious vulnerabilities in Office were closed. Below is an overview of the available updates.
[German]Brief information for owners and administrators of Windows 10 21H2 Enterprise LTSC (and, of course, the IoT version). Administrators of these machines are (incorrectly) being shown information that support for this version is now ending. In my opinion, this is not correct, as LTSC versions receive 5 or 10 years of support.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
