Tag Archives: Update

Patchday: Windows 10 Updates (January 10, 2023)

[German]On January 10, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to current version) as well as for the Windows Server counterparts. Here are some … Continue reading

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (January 10, 2023)

[German]On January 10, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, etc. – as well as for other products – released. The security updates eliminate 98 vulnerabilities, of which (11 are critical, one is a 0-day … Continue reading

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End of support for Windows 7/8.1 on January 10, 2023, for Windows Server 2012 R2 in October

[German]On January 10, 2023, Windows 8.1 and the operating systems Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2, which have been in the Extended Security Update Program (ESU) for three years, will receive security updates for the last time. Then … Continue reading

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Windows: Microsoft Workaround for ODBC SQL connection issues (Jan. 5, 2023)

[German]Since the release of the November 2022 updates, issues can occur when accessing SQL databases. This has already been admitted by Microsoft. Here on the blog, readers had suggested a workaround in the form of an ODBC driver replacement. Now … Continue reading

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Firefox 108.0.2 released; Mozilla freezes user agent string on Firefox 110 because of IE 11

[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 108.0.3 of the Firefox browser on January 5, 2022. It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix two bugs and also brings a small change under macOS. In addition, at this point … Continue reading

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

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Microsoft Teams update process explained

[German]Microsoft Teams does not update via Windows Update or via Office updates. Instead, the Teams client uses its own update strategy to keep itself current. Microsoft revealed some details about the Microsoft Teams update process in October 2022.

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Microsoft Office Updates (January 3, 2023)

[German]As of January 3, 2023 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft has released non-security updates for still-supported versions of Microsoft Office. This month, there are only updates for Microsoft Office 2016, fixing crash errors in Access ODBC accesses and in … Continue reading

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Windows 11: Update KB5021255 / KB5021234 cannot be installed

[German]There are reports from Windows 11 users about issues installing Dec. 13, 2022 security updates KB5021255 (Windows 11 22H2) or KB5021234 (Windows 11 21H2). A German blog reader has contacted me because in his company all Windows 11 clients refuse … Continue reading

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Windows Server 2019/2022: Out-of-Band Updates fixes Hyper-V Issue (Dec. 20, 2022)

[German]The security updates rolled out by Microsoft on the December 2022 patchday lead to problems with Hyper-V in certain constellations. New VMs can no longer be created, existing VMs have problems with Ethernet connections, etc. Microsoft has now released a … Continue reading

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Direct Access Issues fixed with Dec. 2022 Updates

[German]The security updates from November 8, 2022 for Windows, caused Direct Access connection issues. Microsoft had already confirmed this for Windows 10 and Windows 11 as of November 13, 2022, and wrote, that preview updates from October 2022 was the … Continue reading

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