[German]After the Microsoft patchday disaster of July 2018, August updates seems to be mostly flawless. But there are some minor issues with Windows 10 V1803 (independent from August patchday). Here is an overview about some (minor) issues in Windows 10 V1803 (and minor patchday issues in V1709/V1803).
Within my blog post Windows 10 V1803 rollout stopped due to TLS 1.2 issues I reported a specific issue with Windows 10 V1803 and applications that require TLS 1.2 (mostly on Intuit books). Microsoft has even suspended the rollout of this version of Windows 10 because of the error on these machines. Apparently KB4458166 update is now available to fix this problem. I have added details within the linked article.
When switching to transport encryption TLS 1.2, the Windows Error Reporting Service may stop working and dops some errorss in event log. Here are a few details about that topic.
[German]Sometimes Windows 7 to Windows 10 is causing serious trouble an drops the error code 0xC000007F . The blog post discusses, what's the reason for this error code and what you can do.
[German]Dead ones live longer. The Stylish addon, with which you can give websites their own style, is back for Firefox. Great development, here's some background information you need to know.
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[German]Currently Microsoft has left some confusion regarding the August 2018 security updates for the SQL server. In other words, SQL Server 2014 SP2 is not included in the updates. Here are some details.
[German]It isn't a nice story so far: Mozilla's developers have recommended the addon Web Security for a short time to protect privacy and to secure the browser. However, this addon transmits the URLs and other (possibly private or sensitive) data of the visited websites while surfing, and this via an unencrypted connection. Here are some details on the subject.
On August 14, 2018, Microsoft published two more Security Advisory Notifications dealing with the newly discovered vulnerabilities (L1TF). Addendum: Security Advisory from August 15, 2018 added.
[German]Short question about whether blog readers have been getting the message Your system is low on virtual memory' in Windows since the July 2018 patchday?
[German]A brief information for administrators in the Microsoft Azure environment who use the Azure File Sync Agent. Microsoft has released an update rollup on August 14, 2018 that fixes the memory leak in the agent.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
