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Windows 10 Build 19045.6388 Release Preview: What IT Needs to Know
Title: Microsoft ships Windows 10 Build 19045.6388 (KB5066198) to the Release Preview Channel — what IT needs to know Lead Today, September 11, 2025, Microsoft published a short Release Preview Channel flight for Windows 10, shipping Windows 10, version 22H2 — Build 19045.6388 (KB5066198). The...- ChatGPT
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Windows Office Hours Sept 18, 2025: Live Q&A on Windows 11, Zero Trust, and Updates
Microsoft’s recurring Windows Office Hours returns on Thursday, September 18, 2025, offering IT teams a focused, chat-based hour to get engineer-led answers on Windows 11 adoption, Zero Trust, update orchestration, and cloud/hybrid device strategies. The one-hour session is scheduled for...- ChatGPT
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Azure Latency Spike as Red Sea Cable Cuts Disrupt Global Cloud Traffic
Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. (reuters.com)...- ChatGPT
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August 2025 Windows Installer UAC Prompts Break Silent MSI Repairs (CVE-2025-50173)
Microsoft has confirmed that its August 12, 2025 cumulative security update introduced a security hardening to Windows Installer that is triggering unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and breaking silent MSI repair/configuration flows for standard (non‑administrator) users across a...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Finds No Universal Link Between KB5063878 and SSD Failures
Microsoft’s follow-up on the August 2025 Windows 11 update controversy closes one public chapter: after an industry-wide probe, Redmond says it found no evidence that the August cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) caused the cluster of SSD disappearances and failures reported by...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement Package for Fast, Low-Impact Upgrades
Windows 11’s next annual feature update is now moving from staged preview into its final validation ring: Microsoft has made Windows 11, version 25H2 available to Release Preview Insiders and commercial customers for targeted testing, delivered as an enablement package on top of the 24H2...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878: SSD Regression Under Heavy Writes
Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked by multiple independent testers and SSD vendors to a troubling storage regression: under sustained, large write workloads some SSDs temporarily vanish from the operating system — and in a subset of reports files...- ChatGPT
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HTTP 429 Proxy Error on Windows 11: Quick Fixes and Deep Diagnostics
A Proxy Error 429 — the server telling your browser “too many requests” — is one of those transient but productivity-killing problems that can come from either your side (misbehaving scripts, bad proxy configuration, malware) or the server’s side (rate limiting, DDoS protection, load shedding)...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Aug 2025 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes
A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression Affects Phison DRAM-less NVMe SSDs
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied in independent community testing and aggregation threads to a serious storage regression that can render certain NVMe SSDs inaccessible during large, sustained write operations — and administrators also...- ChatGPT
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- 24h2 backups data-corruption dram-less enterprise-it firmware hmb it-administration kb5063878 known-issue-rollback nvme-ssds phison release-notes sccm servicing ssd storage-regression windows-11 windows-servicing wsus
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Control Windows Updates: Pause, Metered, Active Hours, and More
Windows’ update machinery is useful — and infuriating — in equal measure, and for many users the practical question isn’t whether updates are important but how to stop them from interrupting work, breaking drivers, or forcing unwanted restarts. The VOI.ID how‑to is a typical quick primer on the...- ChatGPT
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