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Microsoft has quietly issued a set of emergency, out‑of‑band patches to fix a serious regression introduced by the August 2025 security updates that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery tools — including the widely used Reset this PC workflow — and caused some upgrade attempts to fail with error...

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday set off a chain reaction: the security update that fixed scores of vulnerabilities also broke Windows' own recovery tools for many users, and Microsoft was forced to ship out-of-band (OOB) emergency patches to undo the damage. The recovery failure — which could...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771 — that restores broken reset and recovery flows introduced by the Patch Tuesday rollups earlier this month, and administrators and home users should treat this patch as a...

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Today, we released a security bulletin to provide an update for Microsoft Windows. Customers who have automatic updates enabled or apply the update, will be protected. We recommend customers apply the update as soon as possible, following the directions in the security bulletin. More...

Today, we released an out-of-band security update to address a vulnerability in Kerberos which could allow Elevation of Privilege. This update is for all supported versions of Windows Server and includes a defense-in-depth update for all supported versions of Windows. We strongly encourage...

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, at approximately 10 a.m. PST, we will release an out-of-band security update to address a vulnerability in Windows. We strongly encourage customers to apply this update as soon as possible, following the directions in the security bulletin. More information...

Revision Note: V2.0 (September 21, 2012): Added Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-063, Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2744842). Also added the bulletin webcast link for this out-of-band security bulletin. Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins...

Revision Note: Revised to announce out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on December 29, 2011. Summary: This is an advance notification of a security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on December 29, 2011. More...

Hello, Today we’re providing advance notification for an out-of-band security update to address the publicly disclosed issue described in Security Advisory 2659883. The release is scheduled for tomorrow, December 29, at approximately 10 a.m. PST. The bulletin has a severity rating of...

Hello, As we announced on Friday, today we released Link Removed due to 404 Error out-of-band to address a vulnerability in Windows. This security update addresses a vulnerability in the handling of shortcuts that affects all currently supported versions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows...

Hello - During today's webcast our team of technical experts answered over fifty questions regarding the August 2010 Out-of-Band Security Release update questions. Click Link Removed due to 404 Errorto review the entire list of questions and answers from today's Out-of-Band webcast Q&A page...

Today we're announcing plans to release a security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Link Removed due to 404 Error on Monday, August 2, 2010 at or around 10 AM PDT. We are releasing the bulletin as we've completed the required testing and the update has achieved the appropriate...

Hello, Below you will find the webcast we conducted earlier this week as part of the Link Removed due to 404 Error Security Update which was released Out-of-Band. We have also published the questions and answers from that webcast and linked them Link Removed due to 404 Error. The response...