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September 2025 Testing Guidance
September 10, 2025
This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates require focused testing across network infrastructure, graphics subsystems, and authentication components. September 2025 brings significant updates to core networking…

December 2024 Patch Tuesday Testing Guidance
December 11, 2024Each month, the team at Readiness analyses the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. This guidance is based on…

Transitioning to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
December 7, 2024Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a comprehensive virtualization service that allows organizations to deliver desktop and app experiences from the cloud. It offers the…
Airlock and Readiness
December 3, 2024Whitelisting is a proactive security measure that involves creating a list of trusted applications, processes, or entities that are explicitly allowed to execute on a…
Top 5 CWE Weaknesses and Microsoft Vulnerabilities – a Patching Guide
November 25, 2024Top 5 CWE Weaknesses and Microsoft Vulnerabilities Microsoft has addressed several vulnerabilities corresponding to these CWEs in 2024. Below is an overview of each CWE,…
Challenges in the move to Microsoft MSIX
November 22, 2024Major Challenges in the move to Microsoft MSIX The Microsoft MSIX packaging format is designed to simplify and unify the Windows app installation experience, but…
November Patch Tuesday 2024
November 17, 2024Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday addresses 89 vulnerabilities in Windows, SQL Server, .NET and Microsoft Office. Unfortunately, we have three zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49019 and CVE-2024-49039)…
November 2024 Patch Tuesday Testing Guidance
November 13, 2024Each month, the team at Readiness analyses the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. This guidance is based on…