[German]On December 14, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft has also released a cumulative update for Windows 11, which was released on October 5, 2021. The update is supposed to fix various issues. Here are some details about this update.
[German]On December 14, Microsoft has released various updates for Windows 7 SP1 systems that are still in ESU support. Also with ESU Bypass v11 the whole thing still works. But these security updates are also available for Windows Server 2008 R2 with ESU support. Here is some information about the Monthly Rollup and Security only Updates for this operating system.
[German]On December 14, Microsoft released various updates for Windows 8.1. However, these security updates are also available for Windows Server 2012 R2. Here is some information on the Monthly Rollup and Security only updates for these operating systems.
[German]On December 14, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft has released several security-related updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. An RCE vulnerability in Excel is closed again. For Microsoft Access, however, an update causes massive problems. Here you can find an overview of the available updates. Continue reading
[German]On December 14, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), various cumulative updates for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to the current version) were released. Here are some details about each of the Patchday security updates.
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[English]Microsoft has updated the Edge browser to version 96.0.1054.57 as of December 14, 2021. The release notes refer to the fix for the vulnerability CVE-2021-4102 mentioned by the Chromium team. This is already being exploited. The browser should be updated automatically, but can also be downloaded here.
[German]On December 14, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office etc. – as well as for other products (but not for Exchange) – were released. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on Patchday.
Short message about Microsoft Exchange Online. Yesterday there seem to have been disturbances that affected users of Exchange Online. Mails that were supposed to be sent via Exchange Online are delayed or get stuck as draft or to be sent.
[German]I'm posting a short piece of information here on the blog because this topic will probably affect more and more administrators of Windows 10/11 systems in the coming months and years. We are securing the systems more and more, among other things with TPM. But what happens if a mainboard becomes defective and has to be replaced? That can result in the device no longer being recognized for Azure Active Directory, Windows AutoPilot, etc.
[German]Since the weekend a vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 contained in the JAVA library log4j keeps the IT scene in suspense. The log4j library is extremely widespread and is used in many products. In addition, the vulnerability is extremely easy to exploit remotely and attacks have also been observed for about 2 weeks. In the blog post I try to pick up the most important questions/answers in a kind of FAQ or as a repository and link to further pages.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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2017 – 2020
