{"id":10916,"date":"2017-12-20T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/news-4688\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:30:05","slug":"news-4688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/news-4688\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patch Alert: Few problems in December, unless you\u2019re running Win10 version 1709"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:01:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to remember the last time we had a Patch Tuesday as inoffensive as this month\u2019s. February 2017 comes to mind \u2014 but then again, we didn\u2019t have a Patch Tuesday in February, as Microsoft called it off.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason for the relatively easy going this month, I\u2019m convinced, is the lack of attention showered on Windows 7 and earlier versions of Windows 10 (including the Fall Creators Update, version 1703, which has become more-or-less fully baked and remains my version of choice). Aside from a few lackluster security patches, the December update for Win10 1607 fixed the \u201cCDPUserSvc_XXXX has stopped working\u201d bug introduced in a security patch<\/a> two months ago, and the rest is largely routine.<\/p>\n

The exception, of course, is Windows 10 Fall Security Update, version 1709. If you succumbed to the pressure (or the forced upgrade<\/a>) and installed the latest version of Win10, you were rewarded for your trust by a series of unfortunate patching events worthy of Lemony Snicket<\/a>. If you\u2019re hell-bent on installing this month\u2019s updates on a Win10 1709 machine, make sure you read the Computerworld<\/em> synopsis of problems<\/a> and sometime-solutions. Or, better, forget about it until next month.<\/p>\n

The only major problem with the Office December patches that I\u2019ve seen involves the blocking of Word {DDEAUTO} fields \u2014 an arcane topic that I covered yesterday<\/a>. You\u2019ll only notice the difficulty if you have a Word document that needs to update itself every time you open it. Thus, if you install this month\u2019s Office patches, then open a Word doc, and it no longer responds correctly (by, say, pulling data from an Excel spreadsheet and putting the data in the doc), you need to slog through the manual workarounds, edit the registry, and put DDE right again.<\/p>\n

As a long-time advocate of powerful documents, I\u2019m sorry to see the \u201cAuto\u201d functions go. At the same time, I can understand why their days were numbered. I hate to admit it, but Microsoft made the right choice in cutting off \u201cAuto\u201d updating.<\/p>\n

Bitten by a bug? Bite back. Drop by the AskWoody Lounge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:01:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to remember the last time we had a Patch Tuesday as inoffensive as this month\u2019s. February 2017 comes to mind \u2014 but then again, we didn\u2019t have a Patch Tuesday in February, as Microsoft called it off.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason for the relatively easy going this month, I\u2019m convinced, is the lack of attention showered on Windows 7 and earlier versions of Windows 10 (including the Fall Creators Update, version 1703, which has become more-or-less fully baked and remains my version of choice). Aside from a few lackluster security patches, the December update for Win10 1607 fixed the \u201cCDPUserSvc_XXXX has stopped working\u201d bug introduced in a security patch<\/a> two months ago, and the rest is largely routine.<\/p>\n

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