Windows PowerShell is used more and more from hackers to access Windows systems. Microsoft tries to secure PowerShell from such attacks. In PowerShell 5.0 Microsoft has introduced logging features, to detect such attacks. The Wired article Microsoft's Bid to Save PowerShell From Hackers Starts To Pay Off is discussing how Microsoft hardens PowerShell.
[German]Microsoft has released update KB4039884 as a hotfix for Windows 7 on August 25, 2017 to solve the dual monitor rendering bug. Here are a few details.
[German]Microsoft has released several updates for Office 2016 on August 8, 2017. One was Update KB3213656 for Word 2016, which causes issues with merged cells in tables. The bug affects Word 2016 and also Outlook 2016.
Some short note for administrators using PowerShell scripts. Microsoft says, Version 2.of PowerShell is deprecated. I've mentioned briefly within my blog post Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (V1709): Things removed/deprecated. Now Microsoft has posted the article Windows PowerShell 2.0 Deprecation within PowerShell Team Blog with more details.
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[German]Mozilla's developers has released Firefox 55.0.3 – also available as an update on August 25, 2017. A blog reader informed me, the auto-update hasn't noticed this new update.
[German]Microsoft has released a new Update KB4039871 for Windows 8.1 machines on August 25, 2017. It's a bit mysterious, what Microsoft intends with this update.
Microsoft has released a new Windows Insider Build 16275 of Windows 10 in Fast Ring on August 25, 2017). This new build fixes a couple of bugs within the previous builds.
[German]It seems that Microsoft Security Essentials is causing a curious issue: Suddenly Windows Update shows double definition update entries, and the update history shows many install errors for some definition updates. The definition update will be installed multiple times.
[German]Microsoft has released a new Firmware Update for Surface Pro 3 on August 24, 2017. It shall fixes issues with devices using Type Cover.
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