May 1, 2024   10:07 AM   0 Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms. The company explains on the Windows health dashboard that "Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update or the April 2024 non-security preview update." "We are investigating user reports, and we will provide more information in the coming days,"...

May 1, 2024   11:17 AM   0 Microsoft has confirmed customer reports of NTLM authentication failures and high load after installing last month's Windows Server security updates. According to a new entry added to the Windows health dashboard on Tuesday, this known issue will only affect Windows domain controllers in organizations with a lot of NTLM traffic and few primary DCs. The list of impacted Windows versions and buggy security updates includes Windows...

April 29, 2024   11:04 AM   0 Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing incorrect BitLocker drive encryption errors in some managed Windows environments. The company said that Intune is among the MDM platforms affected by the bug and confirmed that third-party MDM solutions might also be impacted. However, when it acknowledged this in October, it clarified that this was just a reporting problem and the bug does not actually impact drive...

April 23, 2024   05:50 PM   0 Microsoft has rolled back a fix for a known Outlook issue that was causing incorrect security alerts when opening ICS calendar files after installing the December Outlook Desktop security updates. Affected Microsoft 365 users are seeing unexpected warnings that "Microsoft Office has identified a potential security concern" and that "This location may be unsafe" when double-clicking ICS files saved on their devices....

April 12, 2024   04:13 PM   7 Microsoft has started testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu, a new experiment the company says will help users find new "great" apps in the Microsoft Store. The trial is now rolling out in the Beta Channel to what Redmond describes as a "small set of Insiders" who have installed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3495. "Building on top of recent improvements like grouping recently installed apps and showing your frequently...

April 7, 2024   10:17 AM   1 Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry. Windows users can still change their default browser through the Windows settings. However, those who utilized software to make the changes are now blocked by a driver quietly introduced to users worldwide as part of the February updates for Windows 10...

April 5, 2024   06:31 PM   0 Microsoft says Windows 10 updates released since the start of the year are breaking Microsoft Connected Cache (MCC) node discovery on enterprise networks. MCC servers are software-only caching solutions that can be deployed on Windows servers, bare-metal servers, or VMs to cache and deliver content downloaded from Microsoft's content delivery network (CDN). For instance, once a client downloads a Windows update, the rest of the...

April 5, 2024   01:38 PM   0 Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing 0x80073cf2 errors when using the System Preparation (Sysprep) tool after installing November Windows 10 updates. Admins use Sysprep to prepare Windows installations for deployment by removing computer-specific information. It also helps manage multiple computers on a network or fine-tune a single Windows image for a specific PC. The known issue only impacts Windows 10, version 22H2...

April 3, 2024   08:21 PM   0 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has released a scathing report on how Microsoft handled its 2023 Exchange Online attack, warning that the company needs to do better at securing data and be more truthful about how threat actors stole an Azure signing key. Microsoft believes that last May's Exchange Online hack is linked to a threat actor known as 'Storm-0558' stealing an Azure signing key...

April 2, 2024   06:09 PM   2 Microsoft has confirmed that some Outlook.com users are experiencing issues with emails being blocked and marked as spam when trying to email Gmail accounts. This known issue only impacts users with Outlook.com country domains, according to a support document published by Redmond on Tuesday. Affected Outlook users are being told in follow-up emails from Gmail's servers that their messages were suspicious and have been stopped from...

Microsoft added Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to let anyone run a Linux distro directly. Thanks to WSA, you don’t need to dual-boot Linux or create a virtual machine, but the feature is limited to Windows Terminal. Microsoft understands that some of you may be uncomfortable with the command line and is creating a GUI for managing Linux distros. First spotted by Windows Latest, Microsoft quietly published a proposal on its GitHub listing for WSL. On Github, the company...

March 23, 2024   10:14 AM   0 Microsoft plans to limit access to over fifty cloud products for Russian organizations by the end of March as part of the sanctions requirements against the country issued by EU regulators last December. The suspension was initially scheduled for March 20, 2024, but it was moved to the end of the month to give impacted entities more time to set up alternative solutions. The news of these impending suspensions was first reported by...

March 22, 2024   06:12 PM   0 Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix a known issue causing Windows domain controllers to crash after installing the March 2024 Windows Server security updates. As reported by BleepingComputer on Wednesday, many system administrators have warned since this month's Patch Tuesday that servers are unexpectedly freezing and restarting due to a memory leak in the Local...

March 21, 2024   08:27 AM   0 Microsoft confirmed that a memory leak introduced with the March 2024 Windows Server security updates is behind a widespread issue causing Windows domain controllers to crash. As BleepingComputer first reported on Wednesday and as many admins have warned over the last week, affected servers are freezing and restarting unexpectedly due to a Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process...

March 18, 2024   03:51 PM   0 Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide increased security. Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) is an asymmetric cryptography system that uses pairs of public and private keys to encrypt data, with the strength directly related to the length of the key. The longer these keys, the harder they are to crack. 1024-bit RSA keys...