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What’s New Wednesday: A Summary of September 2024’s Patch Tuesday September 11, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support, News, What's New Wednesdays

The Microsoft monthly security update release is published on the second Tuesday of each month. It’s a good idea to restart your PC on the following Wednesday – today. We may well restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY This month’s Patch Tuesday included security updates for 79 flaws and 4 actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities patched. Overall Microsoft patched: 30 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 4 Security…

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What’s New Wednesday: A Summary of August 2024’s Patch Tuesday August 14, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support, News, What's New Wednesdays

The Microsoft monthly security update release is published on the second Tuesday of each month. It’s a good idea to restart your PC on the following Wednesday – today. We may well restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Yesterday’s Patch Tuesday included security updates for 89 flaws and 10 zero-day vulnerabilities. Overall Microsoft patched: 36 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 4 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities 28…

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Can I Keep My On Prem Exchange Server? August 2, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, Dates to Remember

Short answer, Yes. But should you? The Options When it comes to email your options are: Maintain an on premises email server running Exchange. Take your emails to the cloud with Microsoft 365. Upgrades and Updates Many mail servers are still running Exchange 2016. When Microsoft announced Exchange 2019 they made it clear that it would go out of support at the same time as Exchange 2016. As 2019 required more infrastructure capacity and a…

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