Patch Tuesday – January 2021
Microsoft fixes a zero-day in its Defender antimalware software and issues a patch for a vulnerability that was publicly disclosed in December.
Microsoft fixes a zero-day in its Defender antimalware software and issues a patch for a vulnerability that was publicly disclosed in December.
by Brad Sams
In the latest Windows 10 build released to Insider, version 20231, it is possible to enable a new OOBE, or Out of Box Experience.
with 4 Comments by Russell Smith
Microsoft patches 120 vulnerabilities this month, including 2 zero-day flaws. One in Windows and the second in Internet Explorer.
with 2 Comments by Brad Sams
Microsoft is making significant changes to how Windows and Azure operate with new leaderships and teams changing orgs.
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Microsoft has made significant changes to Windows 10X and lost nearly 18 months of development time.
Need help recovering a file in Windows? Microsoft has a new, and free, tool to make that process easier.
by Brad Sams
Microsoft is making updates to the Rings of the Insider program and renaming them to Channels.
by Brad Sams
MSIX is a new installer technology for Windows that first appeared in Windows 10 version 1809 and it was later backported to Windows 10 versions 1709 and 1803. It replaces Windows Installer (MSI) and the APPX packaging format previously used for Store apps. MSIX works with all Win32, WPF, Windows Forms, and Universal Windows Platform… Read More
This month sees a bumper crop of 99 patches from Microsoft, including a fix for the IE zero-day announced last month and a change in default configuration for new Windows Server Active Directory deployments.
with 2 Comments by Russell Smith
Last year, Microsoft announced that it would be making changes to the default LDAP channel binding and signing configuration in Active Directory in the middle of January 2020. But now these changes are being delayed until the second half of 2020 to give organizations more time to prepare.
How to centralize Group Policy templates to make managing configuration settings easier in a domain environment.
Today is the day that many have likely feared for years, Windows 7 is officially reaching its end of support today. What this means is that starting tomorrow, if a vulnerability is discovered, Microsoft likely won’t patch it (for free) and your device will now be exposed.
In today’s Ask the Admin, I show you how to improve network performance in Windows virtual guests running on Oracle’s VirtualBox.
According to Kaspersky’s Threat Evolution Report Q3 2019, there is new ransomware ‘focused solely on NAS’ active in the wild.
Microsoft announced Azure Arc at Ignite 2019 providing a cross-platform hybrid management system to manage all servers anywhere. In this article, you'll learn how to onboard your on-premises servers to Azure Arc Servers.