Tag Archives: Update

What’s happened with Microsoft’s February patchday?

Posted on 2017-02-16 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has stopped the release of all updates on February 2017 patchday (02/14/2017). There are now speculations, about the reason for that decision. Was a compromised Windows Update severs the reason for that?

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No Microsoft Patch-Tuesday so far

Posted on 2017-02-14 by guenni

Today we won't receive Updates from Microsoft. The regular Tuesday updates from Microsoft are delayed. Acording to this Technet post, Microsoft found a last minute bug, that was a show stopper.

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Microsoft confirms: SMBus Controller devices loss functionality through Windows Update

Posted on 2017-02-11 by guenni

[German]Windows Update can seriously damage your Windows installation due to installing a wrong driver. Microsoft has now confirmed such a case with Intel SMBus Controller devices in Windows 7/8.x (and its corresponding server builds).

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Windows 7/8.1: Update KB2952664 / KB2976978 re-released

Posted on 2017-02-11 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has re-released optional update KB2952664 for Windows 7 SP1 and optional update KB2976978 for Windows 8.1. Both are "snooping" updates for telemetry.

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Office Patchday February 7, 2017

Posted on 2017-02-09 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released a couple of non-security updates for it's Office products. Non-security updates for Microsoft Office will be released on first Tuesday of the month. Here are a few details.

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Windows 8.1/10: App-Update Error 0x80073CF0

Posted on 2017-02-02 by guenni

[German]Windows 8.1/10 checks for updates pending for installed app and download the updates from Windows store. Some users are receiving update error 0x80073CF0. If a restart doesn't fix this error, here are a few other hints.

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More changes to Windows 7/8.1 Security-only updates

Posted on 2017-01-17 by guenni

[German]Microsoft will change how Security-only rollup updates for Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and corresponding server versions are delivered.

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Microsoft January 2017 Patchday summary

Posted on 2017-01-10 by guenni

Microsoft has released on January 10, 2017 (Patchday) a couple of security updates for supported Windows versions, for Adobe Flash and for Microsoft Office 2016/Sharepoint.

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Office-Patchday, Updates January 3, 2017

Posted on 2017-01-05 by guenni

[German]Here are a few information about updates released January 3, 2017 for Microsoft Office 2014 and Microsoft Office 2016. It's all non security updates, so they are optional for bug fixes.

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Windows 10: How to fix update error 0x80080008

Posted on 2017-01-02 by guenni

Some users are receiving an update error 0x80080008 under Windows 10 and the installation is aborted. Within this blog post I give some hints how to fix this error.

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