News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support This was quite an interesting week in the world of Microsoft thanks to lots of new Windows builds which brought along multiple improvements and fixes… as well as some headaches for Server admins.
The second week of 2022 has gone by which means that it is time once again to recap everything that happened in the world of Microsoft in the past few days. This week, we have quite a lot of Windows updates content to go through – including some Windows Server concerns -, some Edge enhancements, and Microsoft’s endeavors in the retail space, among many other things. Find out about all of this in our weekly digest for January 8 – January 14. This week was Patch Tuesday which means that there were updates available for all supported versions and SKUs of Windows. Starting off with Windows 7 and 8.1, KB5009610 and KB5009624 were released, respectively. There are some minor improvements here and there but you are recommended to look at the known issues and their associated workarounds before you pull the trigger. Meanwhile, Windows 10 received KB5009543 for versions 20H2,21H1, and 21H2, bumping up the builds to 19042.1466,19043.1466, and 19044.1466, respectively. This update fixes an issue related to Japanese Input Method Editors (IME) and enhances the overall OS security, but there are some known issues that you should check out too. Windows 11 also received KB5009566, which essentially packs the same improvements as Windows 10 above. There is a known issue related to color rendering in image editing programs – which is something we provided coverage on -, but Microsoft is working on a fix. While that is all fine and dandy, the situation was much more complicated on the Windows Server front. Windows admins are reporting major issues with multiple versions of the OS including domain controller boot loops, Hyper-V not starting, and Resilient File System (ReFS) volumes being inaccessible.
