Weekly briefing

Week 18 · 27 Apr – 3 May 2020 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.

What to assess first

27 Apr – 3 May · dates to 2 Jun Check coverage

Act on1

May2020
Known issueMay 2020
Azure Government endpoints are changing
Identity-platform authentication changes
Related evidence (2)
- Bug fix: Microsoft Entra ID will no longer URL-encode the state parameter twice
  Public source · Same source page; the statements may concern different changes
- User passwords will be restricted to 256 characters.
  Public source · Same source page; the statements may concern different changes

Coming up1

12May
Patch TuesdayScheduled for 12 May 2020
Patch Tuesday, 12 May 2020
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.

How this list is chosen

Changes from 27 Apr 2020 – 3 May 2020 UTC and dates due up to 2 Jun 2020. Dates are the source's own, or labelled as the day ChangeIntel observed a change; never inferred effective dates.

Ranked by kind: exploited vulnerabilities, then up to 3 dates, open known issues, and other notable changes, with at most one entry per feed. Service incidents are on the status board; security baseline downloads, first captures of a document, and metadata-only documentation checks are left out. This is a view of retained evidence, not a reconstruction of everything known at the time.

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