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The vendor-update tag covers threads about compatibility and security issues arising from updates provided by third-party vendors or hardware manufacturers for Windows systems. Topics include Microsoft's Secure Boot 2023 CA update requiring firmware readiness from OEMs, a Windows 11 24H2 audio fix after a Dirac DLL caused sound loss, UAC prompts and MSI errors from a security hardening in August 2025 updates, an NVMe storage regression linked to KB5063878, and the removal of PowerShell 2.0. These discussions highlight the need for testing, vendor-supplied drivers, and mitigations to maintain system stability and security.
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    Secure Boot 2023 CA Update: Windows UEFI Certificates Rollout Explained

    Microsoft’s Secure Boot update FAQ makes clear that a coordinated, multi-step transition is now live: Windows will roll new 2023 signing certificates into UEFI variables and update the Windows boot manager to preserve Secure Boot protection ahead of the 2011 CA expirations, but the rollout...
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    • 2011 2011-certs 2023 ca 2023-certs bios bitlocker boot manager bootkit ca2023 certificate certificate expiration certificate rollover cve-2023-24932 db dbx dual boot efi enterprise it esu firmware it administration kek lcu linux linux boot linux compatibility linux shim oem oem firmware os upgrade recovery recovery media recovery usb rollback secure boot servicing stack update shim signaturedatabase ssu svn uefi vendor-update virtual machine virtualization windows 10 windows 11 windows update
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Windows 11 24H2 audio fix: Dirac DLL caused sound loss, safeguard 54283088 lifted

    Microsoft has lifted a months‑long compatibility hold that prevented a subset of PCs from receiving the Windows 11, version 24H2 feature update after an audio-processing component from Dirac caused devices to lose all sound; the problem was corrected with a vendor-supplied driver distributed...
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    • 24h2 audio drivers audio loss compatibility hold cridspapo.dll dirac audio driver update feature updates oem oem drivers release health safeguard 54283088 telemetry validation vendor-update windows 11 windows 11 24h2 windows update
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Windows August 2025 Updates: UAC Prompts, MSI 1730, CVE-2025-50173 Mitigations

    Microsoft has acknowledged a compatibility regression introduced by the August 12, 2025 cumulative Windows updates that can cause unexpected User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompts and MSI Error 1730 failures for non‑administrator users when applications trigger Windows Installer (MSI)...
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    • active setup advertising flow app packaging august 2025 autocad autodesk civil-3d compatibility configmgr configuration manager cve-2025-50173 delivery planning deployment deployment strategies education elevation endpoint security enterprise deployment enterprise it error 1730 first run first-run-setup group policy intune inventor isv packaging isvs it administration it pros kb5063878 kir known issue rollback msi msi 1730 msi advertising msi repair msi-error-1730 msix office 2010 patch per-user installation per-user repair per-user-install privilege privilege escalation run as administrator sccm sccm configmgr security security hardening security patch uac uac prompts vendor-update windows windows 10 windows 11 windows installation windows server workflow wsus wsus-configmgr
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    KB5063878 Windows 11 24H2 Storage Regression: NVMe Drives Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast communities to a reproducible storage regression in which certain NVMe SSDs can suddenly stop responding during sustained large writes, sometimes vanishing from Device Manager and...
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    • backup data corruption data loss device manager disk management dram-less dram-less ssd firmware heavy-writes hmb host memory buffer it administration kb5063878 known issues nvme nvme ssd phison phison controllers release health sccm ssd ssd firmware storage regression update management vendor-update windows 11 windows 11 24h2 wsus
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    PowerShell 2.0 Removal in Windows 11 24H2 & Windows Server 2025: Migration Guide

    Microsoft has announced that Windows PowerShell 2.0 will be removed from Windows starting in August 2025 for Windows 11, version 24H2 and in September 2025 for Windows Server 2025 — a final step in a deprecation that began in 2017 and a change already visible in Windows Insider builds this...
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    • automation canary channel compatibility deprecation enterprise it insider preview it admin legacy runtime migration powershell psscriptanalyzer security task scheduler vendor-update windows windows 11 windows server 2025
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    • Forum: Windows News
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