Tag Archives: Update

Word zero-day-vulnerability patched

There has been a zero-day-vulnerability reported in Word and WordPad that is used in the wild. Microsoft has issued a patch to close this vulnerability on April 2017 patch day.

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April 2017 security updates for Office, IE and .NET

Microsoft has released several security updates for Office, IE and .NET on April 11, 2017. Here are a short overview about those updates.

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Windows 10: security updates April 11, 2017

Microsoft has released at patchday (April 11, 2017) security updates KB4015583 (Windows 10 Version 1703), KB4015217 (Windows 10 Version 1607), KB4015219 (Windows 10 Version 1511) and KB4015221 (Windows 10 RTM). Here are a few details.

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Windows 10 Creators Update: Here are the downloads

[German]Since April 5, 2017 Microsoft supports upgrading Wind0ws 10 systems to version 1703 (Creators Update) for end users. But the upgrade need a manual installation. Therefor Microsoft provides install images, an upgrade assistant also also the Windows Media Creation Tool. … Continue reading

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Office Patchday (April 4, 2017)

[German]Microsoft is releasing non security updates for supported Office versions on first thuesday of a month. On April 4, 2017 Microsoft has released a couple of non security updates for Office 2013 and Office 2016. Here are a few details, … Continue reading

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

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Windows update error 0x80073712

[German]Sometimes users are facing error code 0x80073712 during installing Updates in Windows. I've seen this error from time to time since Windows Vista. Here are a few details about that issue.

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Windows 10: Update error 0x8024a112

[German]Sometimes Windows 10 refuse a restart during installing an update or a feature upgrade. Instead an error 0x8024a112 will be shown within the settings app. Here are a few details how to solve this issue.

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Microsoft blocks Windows 7/8.1 updates for Kaby Lake and Ryzen

[German]Microsoft has released last week some code for Windows 7 SP1 (and Windows 8.1) that blocks updates in Windows, if the operating system runs on Kaby Lake (Intel) or Ryzen (AMD) CPUs.

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Security-Update KB3191855 fixes Excel bug

[German]Microsoft has released this night (March 28, 2017) another important Security-Update KB3191855 for Microsoft Office. This update fixes a bug that causes Excel 2010 to crash.

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Tip: Windows Update error code 0x8024xxxx list

Sometimes Windows Update download or installation fails with an error code. A lot of update error codes are using the 0x8024xxxx (for instance 0x8024001B, stands for WU_E_SELFUPDATE_IN_PROGRESS). I've covered this topic within my blog post Windows: How to decode update … Continue reading

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