{"id":14987,"date":"2019-04-01T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/04\/01\/news-8736\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T00:30:03","slug":"news-8736","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/04\/01\/news-8736\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patch Alert: Most March patches look good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:04:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

March was an unusually light patching month \u2013 all of Office only had one security patch \u2013 and there don\u2019t appear to be any immediate patching worries. Just as in the past few months, Microsoft\u2019s holding off on its second cumulative update for Windows 10 1809, raising hopes that it\u2019s taking Win10 quality more seriously.<\/p>\n

Win10 1809 deployment proceeded at a positively lethargic rate, even though Microsoft declared the OS fit for business consumption<\/a> last week, leading to all sorts of speculation about the next-next update, Win10 version 1903, ultimately overtaking its younger sibling.<\/p>\n

Dell has confirmed that<\/a> every Windows patch in March \u2013 every one of them — bowled over its Encryption Local Management Console. The only solution offered<\/a> is to either roll back the March patch or upgrade to Dell Encryption 10.2.1.<\/p>\n

Few individual users have the Encryption Console, but it\u2019s not uncommon on corporate machines.<\/p>\n

All of the Windows 10 versions had two cumulative updates in March, except for Win10 version 1809, the latest version of the last version of Windows. I take it as a hopeful sign that Microsoft\u2019s spending more time to get the bugs ironed out before delivering the \u201coptional non-security\u201d Win10 patch. (It\u2019s \u201coptional\u201d in the sense that you\u2019ll only get it if you click on \u201cCheck for updates.\u201d)<\/p>\n

There are five irritating, acknowledged bugs<\/a> in Win10 1809 that haven\u2019t been fixed yet:<\/p>\n

Other versions of Win10 have some of the same bugs, introduced by earlier patches.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re covering the demise of Windows 7 intently over on AskWoody<\/a>. But there\u2019s one thing you definitely don\u2019t need \u2013 another nagging patch from Microsoft. KB 4493132<\/a>, a Win7 patch that does nothing bug nag, is definitely worth skipping.<\/p>\n

We have some late-breaking news from Michael Horowitz<\/a> that Win7 now has a scheduled task called refreshgwxconfig-B that seems to be associated with the widely despised \u201cGet Windows X\u201d campaign. It\u2019s not clear at this point where the unwanted task came from.<\/p>\n

Microsoft changes its Windows updating terminology<\/a> capriciously and with absolutely no consideration for settings baked into earlier versions of Win10. But never mind. With word from on high that Win10 version 1809 has been deemed worthy of business deployment<\/a>, we also have assurances that we\u2019ll get similar confirmation for Win10 versions<\/a> from 1903 onward. (And that makes me wonder whether we\u2019ll have yet another change in terminology soon.)<\/p>\n

In general, March\u2019s patches seem quite tame. Let\u2019s hope that\u2019s the new normal.<\/p>\n

Questions answered and discussions dissed on the <\/em>AskWoody Lounge<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:04:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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March was an unusually light patching month \u2013 all of Office only had one security patch \u2013 and there don\u2019t appear to be any immediate patching worries. Just as in the past few months, Microsoft\u2019s holding off on its second cumulative update for Windows 10 1809, raising hopes that it\u2019s taking Win10 quality more seriously.<\/p>\n

Win10 1809 deployment proceeded at a positively lethargic rate, even though Microsoft declared the OS fit for business consumption<\/a> last week, leading to all sorts of speculation about the next-next update, Win10 version 1903, ultimately overtaking its younger sibling.<\/p>\n

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