On tomorrow's patchday, April 9, 2019, some Microsoft Windows versions will receive security updates for the last time and reach the 'End of Life'. The same is true for some SQL Server products that will be dropped from support in July.
April is already a few days old. Nevertheless, here are the figures for the operating system and Windows distribution on the desktop at the end of March 2019.
[German]Microsoft has made changes to the policies for USB media that affect Windows 10 version 1809 and later. The policies for USB media are now set to 'Quick Remove' by default.
Administrators using Sophos security solutions may have been bothered by a number of false positives alarms within the recent days. If this is fixed now, the reason is known.
[German]A brief question to admins in enterprise environments using Windows 10 V1809 in combination with a proxy.pac. Are there issues with the Windows startmenu search hanging when a proxy.pac configuration file is used?
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Does anyone need the latest service packs for the Microsoft Office products still supported (with MSI Installer)? By chance, I came across the Lifewire Latest Microsoft Office Service Packs page this week while searching for Office updates. Someone there linked the direct links to the Microsoft download pages. Simply click on the 32- or 64-bit version, select the correct language on the target page and download the service pack.
[German]Rollup Update KB4489881, which was released for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 on March 12, 2019, has a bug that triggers BlueScreens. The bug has beend fixed in the preview rollup update.
Microsoft has re-released it's Reliability update KB4023057 for Windows 10 (version 1507 till 1803) – see also. This should make the upgrade to the current Windows 10 version 1809 more reliable. Details about this cyclically released update can be found in the article Windows 10: Update KB4023057 re-released (02/14/2019).
The increasing use of push notifications by websites annoys many users. The Mozilla developers are therefore working on a function to control the notification spam through push notifications in Firefox.
[German]Cumulative update KB4490481released by Microsoft on April 2, 2019, for Windows 10 V1809 and Windows Server 2019 is causing BlueScreens on some systems.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
