Microsoft acknowledged the bug and fixed it at the end of June.įor those of you with Microsoft 365, you may have been hit with an Excel bug that manifested itself with white or missing text boxes in Excel spreadsheets. When they do, and if they annoy you as they annoy me, you can disable them in Settings, Privacy and Security, Search Permissions, and Show search highlights.įor business patchers hit with the Routing and Remote Access Service bug, whereby RRAS servers can lose connectivity if NAT is enabled on the public interface, you can opt to wait for the July updates and install the fixed patch then - or install the optional June updates. Although I can’t be sure when you will see these cartoons in your search box, just know that they are coming. So now we’ve been “officially” notified that Search Highlights will be dribbling out. If I took a poll, I’d no doubt find users split between “it’s cute” and “that’s annoying.” I’m in the annoyed camp. From the Windows Update Twitter account, we note a tweet announcing that those Search Highlights will be rolling out “over the next several weeks.” You’ve heard me say this before: I have no idea what a DNA helix or a sheep has to do with a user’s desktop actions, and I repeat my plea to Microsoft that it should adjust its priorities to address more pressing needs. If you are a Windows 11 user, brace yourself. Usually, one uses a cell phone as the hotspot to provide a primary PC (usually a laptop) with an Internet connection. It was a corner case - using a primary PC as a hotspot is rare. Although the hotspot feature is handy in a jam, the truth is that it’s not in everyday use by most people, and thus the inconvenience was minimal. The big issue, sharing an Internet connection by making one PC a Wi-Fi “hotspot,” was fixed in the optional updates released at the end of the month. We close the mid-year patching regime with no major issues found in June’s updates for consumers. ![]() I keep that page updated with the timeliest information available to me. Meanwhile, keep an eye on the Master Patch List for my current projections. As always, I’ll issue MS-DEFCON alerts at the appropriate time. It’s always difficult to know how long a patching pause should last. Patching your devices should be on your terms. That’s why I have a central tenet in my philosophy about patching: you shouldn’t be at the mercy of Microsoft’s or Apple’s or Google’s view of when your maintenance window is. Every computer needs a maintenance window, even all those cloud servers. Conversely, don’t put everything into the cloud and expect it will be there 100% of the time. But you’d manage - as long as you had all your critical data.ĭon’t turn your back on the cloud, especially as an additional backup location for core files. You’d probably grumble constantly about how much you missed your nice, comfortable PC that you were so accustomed to. Also, utilize different types of backups - think in terms of what you will need to quickly restore your computer (local backup) versus the core files you need to keep yourself in working condition (off-site backup).įaced with a primary computer that completely died, and thus forced to use another device with different apps (such as email clients or word processors), most people would be severely inconvenienced. As much as we deride the security of the cloud, having an additional backup in a secure cloud repository is not a bad thing. These backups should be on two different storage types, and at least one backup should be off-site. The other day, I read an interesting post that strongly suggested having at least three backups at all times. At a minimum, check your backup processes to be certain they are running as they should. If you are a consumer patcher, put your pause process in place to ensure that you won’t get updates next Tuesday. Accordingly, I am raising the MS-DEFCON level to 2. So after little more than a week, it’s time to pause updates again. ![]() It takes all of us patch watchers a little bit of time to assess the safety of the last round of updates - and before you know it, the next Tuesday is upon us. In June, Patch Tuesday fell on the latest day of the month possible: the 14th. Oh, wait - that’s right, it was just last week. It seems like just yesterday when I lowered the MS-DEFCON level to allow a cautious breather so we could apply critical patches.
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