Tag Archives: Update

Windows 7/8.1 Preview Rollup Updates (March 19, 2019)

[German]On March 19, 2019, Microsoft released a Preview Rollup Update KB4489892 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. At the same time a Preview Rollup Update KB4489893 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 was released.

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Windows 7 Notification Update KB4493132 released

[German]Microsoft has released update KB4493132 for Windows 7 SP1. This is the notification update for the end of support of this operating system. Here is some information about this update.

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Windows 10: last Delta Updates on April 9, 2019

[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

[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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Microsoft Security Notifications 03/12–14, 2019

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

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Windows Update ends with error 0x800f0982 / 0x8024200d

[German]In Windows it may happen that the installation of updates (e.g. with the Windows 10 Updates KB4480116 and KB4482887) via Windows Update terminates with the error code 0x800f0982 or 0x8024200d. Here is some information about this error

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Windows 10 Microcode and Intel BIOS Updates (March 2019)

[German]Microsoft has updated a bunch of microcode updates various Windows 10 versions. However, the corresponding documentation is still missing. Intel has also released information about 17 vulnerabilities (for Q4 2018) in the Management Engine (ME) firmware that require BIOS updates.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (March 12, 2019)

[German]As of March 12, 2019, Microsoft released numerous security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Here is a compact overview about these update.

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Windows 10 message ‘We removed some recently installed updates …’

[German]On Windows 10, you may see a message that an update has been removed automatically to recover a devices from a startup failure. Microsoft has now explained why you see this information.

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Windows Server 2016: KB4487006 causes Blue Screens

[German]Update KB4487006 released by Microsoft in February 2019 for Windows 10 V1607 and its server counterpart KB4487006 causes some servers to crash with blue screens.

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