SCEP/MSE/Defender failed worldwide for hours due to a bad signatur file v1.289.1521.0 (03/19/2019)

Posted on 2019-03-20 by guenni

[German]On March 19, 2019, Microsoft had a worldwide issue for several hours with its antivirus solutions (Windows Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials, System Center Endpoint Protection). Especially the failure of System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) hit enterprise customers hard. The reason: The signature definition 1.289.1521.0 (and 1.289.1512.0) caused MsMpEng.exe to crash. Microsoft has fixed this bug in the meantime.

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Windows 10: Insider Preview 18356.16 (19H1) in Slow Ring

Posted on 2019-03-20 by guenni

A few days ago Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18356 in Fast Ring (see Windows 10: Insider Preview 18356 in Fast Ring). As of March 15, 2019, this build was released as Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18356.1 in the Slow Ring according to this addendum in the Windows Blog. Now Microsoft has released another cumulative update KB4494123 for this build, which lifts the build to 18356.16. The purpose of this 'bigger' update is to test a test of the service pipeline with a bigger update. At the same time there was the announcement that an Insider Preview Build 18356.1 for Windows Server vNext was released.

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Windows 10: Insider Preview 18361 (19H1) in Fast Ring

Posted on 2019-03-20 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18361 in Fast Ring. The development branch 19H1 is expected to end in April 2019 as Windows 10 V1903.

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Windows 10: last Delta Updates on April 9, 2019

Posted on 2019-03-20 by guenni

[German]Just a reminder for administrators in business environments who are still using so-called delta updates. On April 9, 2019, Microsoft will release such delta updates for Windows 10 for the last time.

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Windows 7: Updates for SHA-2 support

Posted on 2019-03-19 by guenni

win7[German]On March 12, 2019, Microsoft released updates for SHA-2 support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008/R2 as well as WSUS 3.0 SP2. Here is some information about this topic and some hints about first issues.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Microsoft Security Notifications 03/12–14, 2019

Posted on 2019-03-18 by guenni

A short supplement from last week. Microsoft has released some Security Advisory Notifications and Update Revision Notifications for March 12 and 14, 2019.

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Windows Defender Application Guard Extensions for Chrome and Firefox

Posted on 2019-03-18 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released extensions for the Windows Defender Application Guard for Google Chrome and Firefox. These extensions are designed to protect users in enterprise environments running Windows 10 from unsafe Web pages.

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DTrace for Windows available

Posted on 2019-03-17 by guenni

Microsoft ported the analysis tool DTrace to Windows and released it for general use last week. Here is some information about this tool, where to obtain it and what to know else.

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100 Exploits addresses WinRAR vulnerarbility

Posted on 2019-03-17 by guenni

Meanwhile, there are probably already about 100 exploits with which cyber criminals try to exploit the recently discovered and patched WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2018-20250) in Windows UNACEV2.DLL.

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Groove Music: OneDrive streaming ends March 2019

Posted on 2019-03-17 by guenni

Microsoft retires it's OneDrive music streaming in Groove Music app on March 31, 2019. Data stored in the Groove Music service will be deleted up to 30 days after that. Personal music files will continue to be available in OneDrive. Users can keep listening to their music using the OneDrive web player or by downloading the files and playing them in the Groove Music app. That has been announced on this FAQ page, where more details may be found.

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