Microsoft Updates
Microsoft has released three Critical and seventy Important security updates for the month of October, 2021.
These updates will be installed over the next two weeks. Reboots will be required. Applicable updates will be made available for automatic installation via System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
Please refer to the OTS Security Updates webpage for details.
Affected Products
• .NET Core & Visual Studio
• Active Directory Federation Services
• Console Window Host
• HTTP.sys
• Microsoft DWM Core Library
• Microsoft Dynamics
• Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft Graphics Component
• Microsoft Intune
• Microsoft Office Excel
• Microsoft Office SharePoint
• Microsoft Office Visio
• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Windows Codecs Library
• Rich Text Edit Control
• Role: DNS Server
• Role: Windows Active Directory Server
• Role: Windows AD FS Server
• Role: Windows Hyper-V
• System Center
• Visual Studio
• Windows AppContainer
• Windows AppX Deployment Service
• Windows Bind Filter Driver
• Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver
• Windows Common Log File System Driver
• Windows Desktop Bridge
• Windows DirectX
• Windows Event Tracing
• Windows exFAT File System
• Windows Fastfat Driver
• Windows Installer
• Windows Kernel
• Windows MSHTML Platform
• Windows Nearby Sharing
• Windows Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Windows Print Spooler Components
• Windows Remote Procedure Call Runtime
• Windows Storage Spaces Controller
• Windows TCP/IP
• Windows Text Shaping
• Windows Win32K
For additional information about the updates released this month, please see:
Release Notes – October 2021 Security Updates
Microsoft Security Update Guide
