[German]In general, Microsoft's August 2018 patchday seems to go smoothly with the delivered updates. But there are occasional hints that there may be issues with some updates. Addendum: There are new hints, that update KB4100347 is causing issues.
[German]Microsoft released several updates for Windows with Intel Microcode updates on August 14. New a revision of the Microsoft Security Advisory Notification for ADV180018 was published on August 24. Here is the notification from Microsoft – and also an addendum with notes from me.
The mail app of Windows 10 doesn't support to send group emails to contacts located within the people app. The creation of groups in the people app is not possible. Now a Microsoft employee is trying to push the topic.
[German]A little brief note for administrators running Exchange Server 2013 or 2016. I just came across a forum post reporting installation errors and some nasty consequences with security update KB4340731.
[German]A major vulnerability in the GhostScript interpreter has just went public. There is no patch yet. The vulnerability may allow the victim's machine to be taken over. Here is some information on this topic, since GhostScript is included in some products and is actually available on all operating systems.
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[German]Users who are updating Windows 10, or upgrading to the April Update (V1803) may run into a problem. A system warning from sihost.exe is displayed at startup and there are malfunctions.
[German]A brief note for admins. Microsoft has released on August 22, 2018 a critical security update KB4458842 for SQL Server 2016 SP1. Here are a few details about that update.
[German]Here is another hint to vulnerabilities buried in software packages from Microsoft. The Visual C++ runtime packages (VC redistributable) provided by Microsoft are assembled to installer packages with outdated (vulnerable) WiX Toolkit versions.
[German]Owners of a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 received a firmware update on July 26, 2018. If possible, don't install this firmware update, due to (minor) issues with this.
[German]Microsoft has released Intel microcode updates (KB4346084, KB4346085, KB4346086, KB4346087, KB4346088) for Windows 10 on August 20/21, 2018 (thanks to GeroH for the tip). Here is a brief overview.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
