Conflicts between antivirus software and the recent Microsoft April 2019 Patch Tuesday updates are causing Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 to freeze, be unable to boot, or hang on installing updates.
Administrators of Windows Server 2008 SP2 will be offered a new servicing stack update today that adds support for future SHA-2 code signed updates. If SHA-2 support is not added to the operating system, it will not be able to install updates starting in July 2019.
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Today is second Tuesday of the month and the new cumulative updates are rolling out for supported versions of Windows 10, including the October 2018 Update,
An update was released today that adds SHA-2 code signing support to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. If this update is not installed, these Windows operating systems will no longer be able to receive Windows updates starting on July 16th, 2019.
In an updated Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 update history support article, Microsoft has stated that the Windows Update DNS issue should now be fully resolved as all local ISPs have refreshed their DNS servers and are now using the correct DNS records.
Microsoft has stated that Windows 7 support will end in January 2020 and customers are recommended to upgrade to Windows 10 for monthly security updates. For those who wish to continue using Windows 7 beyond January 2020, you can either risk using the OS without updatess or pay Microsoft to get support for another three years.
In a new update last night to the Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 update history support article, Microsoft has confirmed that this problem was caused by data corruption at an external DNS service provider. This caused incorrect records to be pushed to downstream DNS servers at other ISPs.
Windows 10 users continue to have problems performing Windows Update even after Microsoft reportedly has fixed the problem that users were having last week.
For the past two days, Windows 10 users from around the world have been reporting that they are unable to connect to Windows Update. When they attempt to do so, Windows 10 will complain that they are unable to connect to the update service.
The name of the next Windows 10 feature update known as build 1903 or 19H1 may be called the April 2019 Update based on the output of the Get-VMHostSupportedVersion PowerShell command.
When Windows 10 build 1903 is released, it will introduce a new feature called Reserved Storage. As the name suggests, Reserved Storage will automatically allocate a certain amount of storage space that will be used by updates, apps, temporary files, and system caches.
At the moment this update is available for Windows Insiders in the Release Preview ring only and it appears as the 2019-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1809 in Windows Update
On January 8th, Microsoft released the KB4480960 and KB4480970 updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, which have been causing networking and licensing havok for users and organizations that have installed them.
Microsoft advises users to first install this servicing stack update before installing the latest cumulative update
After releasing cumulative updates for all supported versions of Windows 10, Microsoft has also released a new patch for Windows 7 and 8.1 with security and general fixes.
The latest October updates with minor improvements are rolling out to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Windows 10 Anniversary Update and Windows 10 November Update.
It has been almost two weeks since Microsoft released updates for Windows 10 as part of their October 2018 Patch Tuesday and what a long two weeks it has been. In this article we will take a look at the known bugs and how to resolve them.
Microsoft has today re-issued the KB4458469 and KB4457136 for Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709). Microsoft says that patch has been re-released because of a missing solution and if your PC is on 17134.319 or 16299.697, you're recommended to check for updates.
Today is not Patch Tuesday but Microsoft is rolling out a new batch of cumulative updates for Windows 10. The software giant is rolling out cumulative updates with a long list of fixes for Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709).
In a blog post, Microsoft yesterday announced that starting with Windows 10 October Update the company plans to deliver new updates for .NET Framework via Cumulative Updates channel.