Chronological list of all updated Microsoft KB support articles
It is difficult to keep up with Microsoft. If you administrate Windows server or client systems or are responsible for maintaining PCs in a home network or even individual PCs of friends or family, you already have a lot to do when it comes to keeping them up to date.
Sure, you can keep automatic updates enabled and hope for the best. Microsoft's past performance in this regard has made this less practicable as you will run into issues eventually.
Microsoft maintains a huge Knowledge Base (KB) with support articles. All updates for Windows are documented on KB pages, and there are plenty of non-update related KB pages that Microsoft publishes or updates.
Up until now, there was no easy way of finding out which KB pages Microsoft published or updated on a given day. Microsoft maintains a list probably, but it is not publicly accessible.
AskWoody contributor MrBrian created an ingenious solution and released it as a Microsoft Excel macro. Woody Leonhard created an online solution for it and named it KBnew.
KBnew
KBnew lists updated English KB support articles in chronological order. You can still download the Excel macro and use it on your system, but the online listing is more accessible in my opinion.
The current version of KBnew uses s simple layout. It lists the date, the KB ID, and the title of the article for each updated or newly released support article. IDs link to the support articles which is very convenient.
The Excel script pulls data from Microsoft sitemaps to identify new or updated KB articles on Microsoft's website. It appears to work well but may require adjustments over time when new sitemaps get added to the mix.
Microsoft maintains a huge list of sitemaps on its support subdomain. The index lists sitemaps for all supported languages, and is difficult to navigate through.
Admins who require the information for another language may adjust the Excel macro for that. It should not be too difficult to do so considering that the sitemaps follow the same syntax.
Closing Words
KBnew is a super helpful listing of updated or newly released Microsoft KB articles. It is helpful mostly for system administrators who want to stay in the loop, as it is not really possible otherwise when it comes to KB articles.
Now you: Do you work with KB articles regularly?
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.