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• Microsoft will make business patching a bit easier

  Posted on September 13, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  By Susan Bradley

  As I look over the September updates on this smoky, orange-colored day, I see some interesting changes coming for businesses.

  The forecast for September Windows and Office updating is a bit murky as well. Woody is already tracking a variety of patch flaws, and we don’t yet know whether they’re widespread or limited in scope.

  In one example, the Bitdefender AV application was blocking the cumulative update for Win10 1909/1903 (more info), but that’s already been fixed by the app’s vendor — so it’s no longer an issue.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.36.0 (2020-09-14).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Patch Watch AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Deferring updates, Office patching, Patch reboots, Windows updating

• Another patching debacle — how we got here

  Posted on August 26, 2019 at 01:15 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  

  WOODY’S WINDOWS WATCH

  By Woody Leonhard

  Frantic moves to fix this month’s Windows-update bugs highlight the dark underbelly of Microsoft’s patching strategy.

  August patches have been flying around like salmon in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Now that the major bugs are fixed — for the most part — it’s time to look at what happened and speculate on whether this type of debacle can be avoided in the future.

  Here’s the short version of events.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.30.0 (2019-08-26).

  Windows Patches/Security AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Deferring updates, DejaBlue, Patching problems, Windows updating