[German]On February 8 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft also released a cumulative update for Windows 11, which was released on October 5, 2021. The update is supposed to fix various issues. Addendum: In addition, Windows Server 2022 received an update. Here are some details about these updates.
[German]On February 8, 2022 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), various cumulative updates for the supported Windows 10 builds (from the RTM version to the current version) were released. Here are some details about each of the Patchday security updates.
[German]On February 8, 2022, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, etc. – as well as for other products – were released. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on Patchday.
[German]Windows 10 and Windows 11 are experiencing performance issues, especially when accessing storage media, as a result of the November 2021 updates. There are indications that Microsoft is working on eliminating these problems through updates. However, it is currently unclear to me how much of these issues have already been patched and whether more fixes are expected on the February 2022 patchday.
[German]What is the status regarding Windows and printing problems due to security updates? In 2021, PrintNightmare kept the administrators very busy because printing suddenly stopped working after the update. In the last few days and weeks, I have received a few reports about printing problems (network printer problems, Dymo Labelwriter under Windows 11), which is why I am giving an overview in the run-up to the February 2022 Patchday.
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[German]Microsoft has released Out-of-band updatesfor .NET Framework on February 4, 2022. This is to fix a bug when reading or writing Active Directory Forest Trust Information on Windows servers from Apps. The bug is caused by the January 11, 2022 security updates and results in a 0xc0000005 error.
[German]Microsoft's patchday is on February 8, 2022 again. However, those who hope that certain things will be fixed with the security updates on February 8 after the disaster with the January 2022 patchday might be disappointed. At least that probably applies to the ReFS issue, which leaves the corresponding volumes as RAW in certain scenarios. In the meantime, I have a technical explanation why the out-of-date updates do not bring any improvement in some scenarios. Whether Microsoft will ever fix this is still unanswered.
[German]Dark clouds over the horizon for Facebook and its users? Or joyful news for Internet users? Since Facebook (lately they call themselves Meta, but I'm still using Facebook here in the article) presented the last quarterly report, the stock has been in a nosedive, because they are hardly gaining any new users. And now there's also the threat that they'll pull out of Europe if they're not allowed to continue transferring data from Europe to the US and analyzing it for micro-targeting.
[German]Windows 11 seems to be becoming a challenge for many people because of problems with drivers and software at all corners. A blog reader alerted me to a particular problem on a customer's machine. There, an MSSQL Server instance can no longer be started because the sector size has changed to an unsupported value. It's an issue related to Windows 11 and Samsung SSD 980.
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