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MS-DEFCON 2: Batten down the hatches for January
Posted on January 6, 2022 at 02:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the ForumsISSUE 19.01.1 • 2022-01-06 By Susan Bradley
Microsoft has started off the patching year — and not in a good way.
Soon after midnight all across the world, mail administrators running Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 started noticing that mail was not being delivered in their organizations. Horror of horrors, this has been dubbed the “Y2K22” bug — just what we wanted to hear.
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