Daily Archives: August 8, 2023

• Exchange patchers – August heads up

  Posted on August 8, 2023 at 23:41 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Still in the process of testing and evaluating updates but be aware that I am seeing failures to install the Exchange updates potentially on German language servers — unsure if it’s other languages see the comments in this post.

  Normally I would be urging you to patch Exchange mail server (Microsoft’s email server) updates as soon as possible but I’m seeing patching admins indicate that on some  machines it’s failing to install the patch. Note that when Exchange fails to properly install it will often turn the services off completely and then fail to turn them back on. Bottom line don’t panic, just go into your Exchange server and turn the services manually back on. Chances are it will recover.  Note it MAY be that this just impacts German language servers. Note that it is impacting all non English versions of Exchange. Seeing indications in the blog that it may be that locale only?  But given the time zones they may be the ones patching and those of us in North America are still testing. Bottom line, be aware of potential installation issues.  You may want to hold back a bit and see what happens.

  More on this in the Newsletter on Monday. I will also keep the Master Patch List page up to date on the latest.  In the meantime I would keep an eye on the Exchange blog site.

  Updates Master Patch List, Patch Lady Posts

• What’s up with the August office updates

  Posted on August 8, 2023 at 15:29 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Did I miss a month in the calendar?

  I thought Office 2013 was no longer under support as of April.  Not August but A-P-R-I-L.

  OH I see what they are doing…. it’s a “defense in depth” patch which is shorthand for saying that we clearly still see that a lot of you are using Office 2013 so we’d better fix it so it’s not used in more attacks.

  Proving once again that bugs will always be with us.  Once again more full analysis of what the risks are coming in the newsletter.

  Microsoft Office 2013

  Product	Knowledge Base article title and number
  Excel 2013	Description of the security update for Excel 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB5002451)
  Office 2013	Description of the security update for Office 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB5002439)
  OneNote 2013	Description of the security update for OneNote 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB4022167)
  Outlook 2013	Description of the security update for Outlook 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB5002449)
  PowerPoint 2013	Description of the security update for PowerPoint 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB5002399)
  Project 2013	Description of the security update for Project 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB4484489)
  Publisher 2013	Description of the security update for Publisher 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB5002391)
  Visio 2013	Description of the security update for Visio 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB5002417)
  Word 2013	Description of the security update for Word 2013: August 8, 2023 (KB5002445)

  Office Patches/Security August 2023 Black Tuesday, Patch Lady Posts

• August 2023 updates are out

  Posted on August 8, 2023 at 12:44 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  For Apple devices, while 16.6 was released back on July 24, your device may not have received them yet – or will be installing it shortly. As always, if you see any weirdness try turning the device off and then back on again.

  August is BlackHat and Defcon – the big security conferences held in Las Vegas and this month is a BIG release for security patches as well.

  We STILL do not have a patch for all affected version of Office/wordpad for last month’s security vulnerability in Office/html (if you remember it was patched in the M365 versions but not all) instead we have an advisory.

  Exchange mail servers have a patch.

  .NET’s have security updates.

  More in next weeks newsletters.  For now I start testing on my canary machines and you – you just hang tight and defer those updates.

  Windows Patches/Security August 2023 Black Tuesday, Patch Lady Posts