[German]New information on SolarWinds supply chain attack on Orion software. Tens of thousands of companies and organizations around the world were compromised via the attack, which was suspected to be attributed to Russian state-related hackers. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has now announced that 27 U.S. government agencies were also affected by the SolarWinds hack.
[German]Microsoft provides different types of updates for Windows (10 and 11). These range from the monthly security and quality updates on patchday to preview updates and out-of-band updates. This is all known to well-informed administrators and users. But Microsoft has probably seen the need to write that down again (and also for Windows 11) in more detail.
[German]Once again, a general question that came to me via a blog reader. It's about servers in a domain environment no longer showing up completely in Explorer in the Network Neighborhood on Windows 10 clients (20H2 and 21H1). The reader has a strange error pattern depending on which environment is used.
[German]Microsoft has also updated the Edge browser to version 92.0.902.62 as of July 29, 2021. The release notes on the beta channel state that various bugs and performance issues have been fixed. German blog reader Uli writes that this update fixes the issues described in the blog post Microsoft Edge 92.0.902.55: Fixes vulnerabilities, causes freezes in PDFs.
[German]Microsoft has now released the unscheduled update for Windows 10 version 1607 as well as Windows Server 2016 on July 29, 2021. This special update KB5005393 is supposed to fix the printing problem in connection with a SmartCard authentication. Here is a quick overview of this update.
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[German]In addition to the preview update for Windows 10 version 2004 – 21H1 (see Windows 10 2004-21H1: Preview Update KB5004296 (July 29, 2021)) Microsoft also released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5004293 for Windows 10 version 1909 (Enterprise, Education, IoT) on July 29, 2021. The update fixes several gaming issues as well as many other bugs. Here is an overview of this update.
[German]Microsoft has released another optional cumulative (preview) update for Windows 10 version 2004, 20H2 and 21H1, as well as their Windows Server counterparts, as of July 29, 2021. The update fixes several gaming issues, as well as many other bugs. Here's an overview of this update.
[German]Microsoft has once again released the preparation update KB4023057 for machines with Windows 10 in July 2021. The update is supposed to improve the reliability of the Windows Update service, i.e. to find any update problems on the Windows 10 systems of private users that prevent an upgrade.
[German]Brief information for Windows admins in the corporate environment. Microsoft has released the night of 7/29/2021 revised security updates to mitigate NTLM Relay attacks on Active Directory certificates and vulnerability CVE-2021-36934 (Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, HiveNightmare). I'll post it here uncommented for your information.
[German]Owners of Microsoft Office 2010 who are still using this package should realize that this product has not only fallen out of Microsoft support, but can also no longer be re-activated in case of a fresh install. Microsoft seems to refuses now to activate the product after a re-install, as I have now learned in two specific cases.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
