Newsletter Archives

• Closing the books on a buggy year

  Posted on December 16, 2024 at 02:41 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  We’re closing the patching year with an AI-related bug that — fortunately — is not related to Copilot, Recall, or any other AI-related product released by Microsoft in the last few months.

  In fact, you may not have heard of it at all. Called Microsoft Muzic, it’s a research project in understanding music via deep learning and artificial intelligence. It also introduced a vulnerability into your computer if you installed it.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.51.0, 2024-12-16).

  Patch Watch CVE-2024-49063, CVE-2024-49112, CVE-2024-49117, CVE-2024-49138, Exchange, Google Workspace, Hyper-V, KB5002652, Newsletters, Outlook, Patch Lady Posts, TPM, Windows 11 24H2

• Is virtualization right for you?

  Posted on August 12, 2024 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  With any major change from one OS version to another, such as the leap from Windows 10 to 11, I determine whether to keep the old version around, just to run an application that hasn’t yet made the leap.

  I could keep an old PC on hand with the older OS and app. That might be useful if the older app has a more useful feature than the new version. It’s probably easier to do this in a business setting, where holding on to an old PC is less disruptive, but even home users can keep older technology if they’ve got the space.

  The alternative is to create a virtual machine (VM) on the new PC — one that runs the old OS and thus the older app.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.33.0, 2024-08-12).

  On Security Disk2vhd, Hyper-V, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, Virtual Machines, Virtual PC, VirtualBox, VMWare, Windows Sandbox

• Server updates fail to download

  Posted on March 18, 2024 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  The March updates for Windows opened the month on a bumpy road.

  The most significant bump relates to the update for Windows Server, demonstrating that it’s not just client PCs that have problems. Fortunately, the problem seems to have been fixed quickly.

  KB5035849 is the culprit.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.12.0, 2024-03-18).

  Patch Watch Backup, CVE-2024-21407, Hyper-V, iCloud, iPhone, KB5034441, KB5035845, KB5035849, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, Windows Server

• A bumpy road for January

  Posted on January 17, 2022 at 02:42 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  I’m always conservative, but this month you must delay applying updates to avoid side effects. Business patchers — you face tough choices.

  We are seeing reports of various issues with this month’s updates, some of which are so extreme that patching administrators in businesses have had to remove or roll back updates. Even for consumer and home users, I suggest holding off; it’s way too soon for me to feel comfortable recommending updates.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.03.0 (2022-01-17).

  Patch Watch Hyper-V, MS-DEFCON 1, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, Patch Watch, ReFS, VPN

• KB 3161606 should not be applied to Hyper-V hosts or VMs

  Posted on June 28, 2016 at 13:26 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Rod Trent has full details on WindowsITPro

  Windows Patches/Security Hyper-V, KB 3161606

• Is Win10 v 1511 breaking Hyper-V?

  Posted on November 13, 2015 at 11:22 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  An interesting note from reader AR:

  This “upgrade” seems to destroy existing Hyper-V setups.

  My rather simple setup include a virtual switch to the physical Ethernet port on my machine, which makes the host connect through a Hyper-V Virtual Ethernet Adapter. It doesn’t work after the upgrade to 10586, but even worse, I don’t seem to be able to uninstall it either!

  When I try to remove the external switch in Hyper-V I get the error “Can’t remove internal miniport … Invalid parameter: (0x80041008)” [translated from Swedish].

  It seems like the Hyper-V upgrade to allow nested virtualization is broken somewhere.

  If you know a solution, please tell me!

  I found a similar complaint on a Chinese language forum.

  Anybody hit this one?

  Windows Patches/Security error 0x80041008, Hyper-V, Windows 10