[German]On August 9, 2022 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. However, there is collateral damage for Excel 2013. Here is an overview of the available updates.
[German]Microsoft has released security update KB5002242 for Excel 2013 on August 9, 2022 (Patchday). The patch is supposed to eliminate both a vulnerability and a bug in this Excel version. However, there is feedback from readers on the blog that this update is causing problems. Addendum: There is a workaround with a registry hack, to surpress the open error. Addenum 2: Confirmed by Microsoft. In addition, there is another Excel problem someone reported, which I pack into this article.
[German]Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019, effective August 9. These updates are required to address vulnerabilities reported by external security partners and found through Microsoft's internal processes. The updates apply to the Exchange Server on-premises installations listed below.
[German]Microsoft has also released security updates for Windows 7 and 8.1 as well as for the Windows Server counterparts 2008 R2 and 2012/R2 on Patchday. Here is an overview of these updates for Windows 7/8.1 and the corresponding Windows Server versions 2008 R2 and 2012/R2.
[German]On August 9 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft also released a cumulative update for Windows 11, which will be released on October 5, 2021. The update is supposed to fix various problems. In addition, Windows Server 2022 received an update. Here are some details about these updates. Continue reading
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[German]On August 9, 2022 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to the current version). Here are some details about each security update.
[German]On August 9, 2022, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, etc. – as well as for other products – were released. The security updates also eliminate 118 vulnerabilities, 17 of which are critical and two 0-day vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on patchday.
[German]On Monday, August 8, 2022, the Danish supermarket chain 7-Eleven has fallen victim to a cyberattack. As a result of this cyberattack, the chain had to close all 175 stores in Denmark on August 8, 2022. On Thuesday, August 9, 2022, some stores are reopened.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update to the email client on August 9, 2022 (just hours after the previous version). It withdraws a feature to show progress when retrieving pop mails.
[German]Microsoft has informed its users of Windows 10, Windows 11 and various Windows Server versions about a new bug introduced via update. One is affected when one suddenly cannot open XPS documents anymore if these documents have characters outside the English language range. However, I wonder how many users really use XPS documents.
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