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• MS-DEFCON 4: Side effects for dual booters

  Posted on August 27, 2024 at 02:45 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.35.1 • 2024-08-27

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Secure Boot is causing — once again — side effects for Windows patchers.

  The August updates are triggering issues for those who dual-boot into Linux. Because this is unlikely to affect very many users, and because the IPv6 bug I alerted you to ten days ago is now well understood, I feel that lowering the MS-DEFCON level to 4 is safe.

  That assumes you do not ignore the IPv6 matter.

  Anyone can read the full MS-DEFCON Alert (21.35.1, 2024-08-27).

  AskWoody Plus Alert, MS-DEFCON Alerts, CVE-2024-38063, KB5041578, KB5041580, KB5041585, MS-DEFCON, MS-DEFCON 4, Patch Lady Posts, Secure Boot, Server 2019

• Microsoft re-releases Windows Server 2019 (part of the Win10 version 1809 cluster)

  Posted on November 13, 2018 at 09:49 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The announcement is up:

  Windows Server 2019 is once again generally available. You can pull the new Windows Server 2019 images—including the new ‘Windows’ base image—via:

  docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1809
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:1809
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows:1809

  Just like the Windows Server 2016 release, the Windows Server Core container image is the only Windows base image in our Long-Term Servicing Channel.

  But the bits aren’t there yet. Per @teroalhonen:

  Something something

  Error response from daemon: manifest for https://t.co/J4b32CLZB8 not found

  — Tero Alhonen (@teroalhonen) November 13, 2018

  UPDATE: Surprise! Microsoft pulled the page. Maybe Server 2019 isn’t headed out the door yet.

  Windows News Server 2019