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March kept us all very busy with the ongoing out-of-band Microsoft updates for Exchange Server and the printing BSODs, which plagued us since last Patch Tuesday.
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April 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast We will see the Windows 10 cumulative updates, security-only and monthly updates for the actively supported operating systems, and, of course, the Extended Security Updates for Windows 7 and Server 2008/2008 R2. Now that Microsoft has settled on its new service stack update strategy we may see fewer updates.
Adobe released security updates for many of their products last month, but Acrobat and Reader were last updated in February.
Apple released the last Big Sur update on March 8th, but we still haven't seen an iTunes security release for quite a while.
Mozilla released some minor security updates for Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird back on March 23.
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