Newsletter Archives

• Microsoft Patch Alert: January patches stumbled all over themselves, but they’re finally looking reasonably stable

  Posted on January 30, 2019 at 08:12 CST by admin • Comment in the Forums

  Cold and snow have descended on Middle Tennessee. School’s out for the day. What better activity than to dissect this month’s patches?

  • The usual Win10 Patch Tuesday and “optional” cumulative updates, with a surprise laggard
  • Multiple problems with Win7/Server 2008 Monthly Rollups
  • .NET and activation surprises
  • Office 2010 takes one for the team

  and more.

  Details in Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Windows Patches/Security January 2019 Black Tuesday

• Unable to access Microsoft 365 services

  Posted on January 29, 2019 at 18:55 CST by admin • Comment in the Forums

  Yep. Looks like Microsoft 365 is down again.

  The official report (as of this moment):

  Affected users are unable to authenticate to and access Microsoft 365 services… Dynamics 365, LinkedIn, and other services that leverage Azure Active Directory (AAD) are or were also affected by this event… This issue may potentially affect any of your users attempting to access Microsoft 365 services.

  Start time: Tuesday, January 29, 2019, at 9:15 PM UT. [That’s 4:15 pm in New York.]

  Preliminary root cause: A portion of third-party managed network infrastructure that facilitates authentication requests and access to Microsoft 365 services was degraded.

  Can’t help but wonder if this is related to the sporadic Microsoft Update Catalog outages we’re seeing.

  Microsoft News Microsoft 365

• Gremlins again – various roles are bumping up and down

  Posted on January 10, 2019 at 18:10 CST by admin • Comment in the Forums

  Transitions are so much fun.

  We just imported a whole bunch of new members, to hook them up to the Plus Membership/subscription software. In the process, the various roles — AskWoody Lounger, AskWoody_MVP and others — have been jumping around like a Willys in four wheel drive. At this moment, your role may or may not be working. It should settle down overnight.

  Gremlins. Or gamma rays. Probably both.

  Apologies.

  Other

• Finger Gestures

  Posted on October 8, 2013 at 13:18 CDT by admin • Comment in the Forums

  

  Uncategorized knotty or nice sethness woodt leonhard cartoon finger gestures ipad tablet traffic

• Knotty or Nice (a cartoon from Woody’s tame cartoonist, Sethness)

  Posted on October 1, 2013 at 15:10 CDT by admin • Comment in the Forums
  

  Will Win9 be any better than Win8?

  Will Win9 be any better than Win8?

  Uncategorized cartoon win8 win9 sinofsky myerson woody leonhard sethness seth bareiss

• Just For Laughs: “The Other Dvorak Keyboard”

  Posted on June 22, 2011 at 21:40 CDT by admin • Comment in the Forums
  

  The Other Dvorak's Keyboard

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• Calling for a superhero

  Posted on March 22, 2011 at 21:51 CDT by admin • Comment in the Forums
  

  This one's for calling Batman. When we want the I.T. guy, we use one shaped like a pizza.

  Uncategorized batman, calling, hail, help, humor, joke laugh, light, searchlight

• Season’s Greetings

  Posted on December 29, 2010 at 13:38 CST by admin • Comment in the Forums
  

  Beware of Geeks bearing *.GIFs

  Uncategorized 2011, christmas, humor, new year, seasons greetings

• “All A-Twitter” a limerick for AskWoody.com

  Posted on October 28, 2010 at 18:58 CDT by admin • Comment in the Forums

  

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• Cartoon: WinXP menus versus Win7 menus

  Posted on October 23, 2010 at 16:43 CDT by admin • Comment in the Forums
  

  An Original Cartoon for AskWoody.com

  Uncategorized cartoon humor PC windows winxp xp win7 menu obfuscate obscure difficult design
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