Neowin News Feed for: Oob

Microsoft releases emergency out-of-band .NET update to patch severe bug

Usama Jawad — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:14:01 +0000

A serious flaw in recent .NET builds has forced an urgent patch, with Microsoft warning impacted apps could grant attackers SYSTEM privileges. Read more...

Microsoft's horrendous Patch Tuesday update exposes the weak QA process for Windows

Usama Jawad — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:00:02 +0000

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update has been a nightmare for a lot of customers, and more importantly, it has exposed glaring gaps in the company's QA process. Read more...

Microsoft breaks reset and recovery options on older Windows versions, emergency update out

Usama Jawad — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:14:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that reset and recovery options are broken on many versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 after installing August's Patch Tuesday updates. Read more...

Windows 11 24H2 gets emergency fix (KB5064489) for Azure VM boot issues

Paul Hill — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:52:01 +0000

Microsoft has released an out-of-band update (KB5064489) for Windows 11, version 24H2. Read on to see what's new and if anything is broken. Read more...

Microsoft releases out-of-band updates to fix LSASS memory leaks in Windows

Taras Buria — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 10:22:01 +0000

Microsoft has released a set of out-of-band updates (OOB) to resolve issues with LSASS memory leaks in some Windows Server versions. Those updates include KB5037422, KB5037423, and KB5037426. Read more...

Microsoft releases OOB Windows update to fix Domain Controller Kerberos authentication issue

Usama Jawad — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:46:01 +0000

Microsoft has released out-of-band Windows updates in order to patch issues in Kerberos authentication on Domain Controllers. The updates need to be installed manually via Microsoft Update Catalog. Read more...

Microsoft releases emergency OOB update KB5020953 to fix OneDrive crashing on Windows

Sayan Sen — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 05:38:01 +0000

Emergency OOB update KB5020953 has been released by Microsoft earlier today to fix the OneDrive crashing bug. The bug was introduced soon after the Patch Tuesday release for this month. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 10 2022 Update, conflicts, and Microsoft 365

Usama Jawad — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 17:16:01 +0000

Take a sip of your weekly dose of Microsoft news as you kick back, relax, and find out everything that happened in the past few days including a feature update's rollout, some conflicts, and more. Read more...