I was reading the post of Mikael Nystrom, who regularly consults and assists with businesses and deployment. One of his comments caught my eye — the boring but important stuff. He offers up a PowerShell script to review UEFI & Secure Boot TPM & BitLocker VBS, Credential Guard, HVCI LSA protection / LSASS PPL Defender […]

Many days ago, Microsoft posted an IT pro-focused post on patching and a Windows Autopatch report. What caught my eye was the recommendation to install the latest security updates as follows: Within 3 days to be considered current (and reported as current) Within 7 days to help ensure devices aren’t subject to vulnerabilities (and reported […]

I’ve updated the master patch list here.  Please note I am not recommending installing updates at this time, we are just testing and reporting. Too early to tell how the month will be and if we will have any out of band updates to fix issues.. I’ll be updating that page and monitoring for issues. As […]

Public service announcement for April 2026: Today is Patch Tuesday and it’s landing the day before the US Tax filing deadline. If you haven’t filed your income taxes, there is still time to file an extension.  This is also not a good day to be installing updates to your computer you will be using to […]

The attackers are better at understanding and using the cloud than we are. Seriously. Consider this a business post, one to discuss with your technology provider. CISA urges anyone using Intune to control and support workstations to do a better job protecting them. Recently, attackers gained access though Intune – Microsoft’s cloud control offering – […]

If you are as old as I am, or older, you will remember way back when Microsoft stopped coding and acknowledged that they had a security problem. I still remember I was in the middle of beta testing Small Business Server 2003 and they kept giving us extension codes to defer the beta.  This retooling […]

Alex posted this in the forums but I wanted to bring it to the attention of all. If you downloaded Notepad++ between June and December, there’s a good chance you downloaded some malicious code at the same time. While we all are not fans of AI inside of the native Notepad program of Windows, attackers […]

Spotted a trending issue that appears to me to be impacting business pcs but not consumer pcs.  I’m seeing enough reports of people saying systems reboot rather than shut down after the January updates. Removing KB5073455 restores the ability to shut down.  I have several laptops with the KB installed and can’t repro this.  Based […]

I’ve updated the master patch list here.  Please note I am not recommending installing updates at this time, we are just testing and reporting. BUSINESSES ONLY:  Already Microsoft has noted an issue and rolled out a Known issue fix for systems that are hosted and you remote into them. After the January updates you were blocked […]

It’s the first of the year and the first updates for 2026 So what’s out today? And yes, you aren’t hallucinating – there are Office updates out today. Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2:  KB5074109 [Secure Boot] Starting with this update, Windows quality updates include a subset of high confidence device targeting data that identifies devices […]

I’ve updated the master patch list here.  Please note I am not recommending installing updates at this time, we are just testing and reporting. After installing KB5072033 and rebooting my Windows 11 25H2 machine took a bit of time to settle down after installing . I think the indexing fix is having an impact on post […]

Today is month “two” of the Windows 10 ESU updates.  Remember,  my recommendations haven’t changed: I still recommend pausing. Remember at this time we are in test mode only for Windows updates. Microsoft has an “ask me anything” coming up tomorrow on what to do with the Secure Boot patching. So what’s out today? And […]

I’ve updated the master patch list here.  Please note I am not recommending installing updates at this time, we are just testing and reporting. Way too early to see any trending issues. We had one last update for Windows 10 without ESU updates to fix an issue getting ESU’s enabled! As always I’m in testing mode […]

Today is the first official release for Windows 10 ESU updates. Now my recommendations haven’t changed: I still recommend pausing. If you’ve jumped through the hoops to enable the ESU once I approve updates you should see the updates offered up. Remember at this time we are in test mode only for Windows updates. At […]

Some applications are dealing with the bug IIS websites might fail to load. The fix for that issue is included in KB5067036. Note this does not impact all users.  I’ve not seen the issue in my applications. Note this is a preview update that also includes some additional user interface changes. So if you were alerted […]