Microsoft Windows Security Updates April 2019 overview

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Microsoft released security updates for supported versions of Windows and other company today on the April 9, 2019 Patch Tuesday.

Updates are provided in various ways: via Windows Update, as direct downloads, and through Enterprise updating systems.

Our monthly overview of Microsoft's Patch Day offers detailed information on updates, additional information that is relevant, and links to supported articles.

It starts with an executive summary, and is followed by the statistics, the list of released updates, known issues, and direct download links.

You can check out last month's Patch Day in case you have missed it. As always, it is recommended that systems are backed up before new patches are installed. Note that some users had troubles installing the last cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1809; you can check a possible fix for System Service Exception blue screens here.

Attention: Reports of Windows 7 and 8.1, and Server 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 machines freezing after update installation. Is apparently related to Sophos products, only solution right now is to uninstall the update.

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