November 13, 2024 at 11:36AM Microsoft’s November 2024 Patch Tuesday addressed 89 vulnerabilities, including four zero-days, with two actively exploited. Key fixes involve critical flaws in remote code execution and privilege escalation. Other notable updates were shared by Adobe, Cisco, and Google. Comprehensive vulnerability details are outlined in the full report. ### Meeting Takeaways – … Read more
November 12, 2024 at 02:04PM Microsoft’s November 2024 Patch Tuesday addresses 91 vulnerabilities, including four critical flaws and two actively exploited zero-days. Notable vulnerabilities include NTLM Hash Disclosure and Windows Task Scheduler issues. The update also highlights fixes for other major products and features from various vendors, ensuring enhanced security across systems. ### Meeting Takeaways … Read more
August 20, 2024 at 12:35PM The August 2024 Windows updates are causing issues for dual boot on Linux systems with Secure Boot enabled. Microsoft’s Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) update is blocking Linux boot loaders unpatched against the CVE-2022-2601 GRUB2 Secure Boot bypass vulnerability, affecting various distros. Users may need to disable Secure Boot, update … Read more
March 4, 2024 at 02:08AM Starting April 2024, non-managed enterprise Windows 10 Pro devices will receive nag screens prompting a free upgrade to Windows 11. Users can choose to upgrade to Windows 11 23H2 or continue with Windows 10. These prompts will not appear on managed enterprise PCs. Windows 10 Pro’s support ends on October … Read more
January 24, 2024 at 05:29AM Microsoft has reported 0x80073cf2 errors for admins using the Sysprep tool to validate Windows 10 installations after recent updates. This issue affects Windows 10, version 22H2 systems in audit mode. A temporary workaround is available for affected Windows images by removing the problematic Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge package using a PowerShell command. Microsoft … Read more
November 18, 2023 at 10:32PM Microsoft now allows admins to control the deployment of optional updates on Windows 10 enterprise endpoints. A new policy can be configured to choose how monthly preview updates are delivered to users across the organization. Users can automatically receive optional updates, receive only cumulative updates, or select which optional updates … Read more
October 16, 2023 at 07:55AM Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Windows 10 security updates to fail with 0x8007000d errors. The problem affected Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 10 22H2, and the KB5031356 security update. Microsoft used Known Issue Rollback (KIR) to fix the issue, and the fix should automatically propagate to all … Read more