If you want to really nerd out on the details of how the season’s schedule is setup this year (it’s quite different than most leagues), check out this article: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/2023-mls-regular-season-schedule-announced

Pertinent details start at the section titled “Leagues Cup Break”. Most importantly, the section titled “MLS Schedule Construction” outlines how the teams are group and how often they play each other. It’s a little convoluted.

Speaking of convoluted, here’s the playoff rules this season: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-announces-new-playoff-format-for-2023-season

Starting my updates today (I typically wait a week to let other people be the test bed), I will update at the end tomorrow or the following day, especially if I run into any trouble.

More importantly though, there’s two substantial changes in Windows Updates this month that you should be aware of if you are not already.

KB5020805 enters the next phase for patching CVE-2022-37967.

This month’s patches do the following:

• Removes the ability to set value 1 for the KrbtgtFullPacSignature subkey.
• Moves the update to Enforcement mode (Default) (KrbtgtFullPacSignature = 3) which can be overridden by an Administrator with an explicit Audit setting.

Between now and October is your last chance to look for anything broken by this change, after October 10th patches the ability to undo this change is removed completely.

For more details see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5020805-how-to-manage-kerberos-protocol-changes-related-to-cve-2022-37967-997e9acc-67c5-48e1-8d0d-190269bf4efb

KB5021130 enters final phase of patching for CVE-2022-38023

This month’s patches are the final phase of mitigation for this issue. Last month it forced the on everyone, so hopefully you’ve seen and found anything broken, as this month removes the ability to turn this change off due to the following:

• The Windows updates released on July 11, 2023 will remove the ability to set value 1 to the RequireSeal registry subkey. This enables the Enforcement phase of CVE-2022-38023.

For more details see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5021130-how-to-manage-the-netlogon-protocol-changes-related-to-cve-2022-38023-46ea3067-3989-4d40-963c-680fd9e8ee25

Check your system logs for both of those KBs (event IDs to look for are outlined later in both articles) before patching.

Edit 1:

Just noticed that “CVE-2023-36884 - Office and Windows HTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability” has additional remediation steps if you are not using Microsoft Defender for Office. More details and regkey included in this article: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36884

Edit 2:

Finished updates last night with no issues. Basic environment overview: Mix of physical and VMs (split between Hyper-V and VMWare), mostly worked on Windows servers last night, 2012 R2 - 2019. Updated VMs and hosts (on both platforms). Everything seems to be humming along nicely.

Initially I was kind of annoyed at meme Mondays because it made it hard to track start of the week news that hit on Mondays, but I pretty quickly embraced it due to the general quality of the memes and the added meme flair.

Definitely support that coming to here, if that’s what the general consensus is.

Just subscribed, came here for the same reasons! Hoping this place can take off, because main reason I was going to give Reddit a single of iota of traffic going forward was for the Mega Patch Tuesday Threads, those are so insanely helpful that they are the first place I go before patching now. Hopefully we’ll some going in here as well, maybe our lord and savior JoshTaco will grace us with their presence as well 🤞 🚬

Cheers!

Sadly it’s looking more and more to be the case. I’ve not been as hot as other fans to fire Gio in the last few years, but this season is finally starting to weigh on me. There’s been some similar things with a few other players in the last few years as well, such as that weird thing last season with Eryk Williamson getting benched at the end of the season, and Ivacic basically calling Gio a liar to the press at the beginning of this season as to why he was playing Bingham over Ivacic.

Between injuries and all the front office scandals, he’s been between a rock and a hard place pretty much his entire time he’s been here, so I have always been willing to give him some grace, but so many weird little things have slowly cropped up to being larger seemingly institutional rot at our core. I don’t put all the blame on him, but he’s not blameless and my grace may have waned by the end of the season depending on how things are.

Long time and active /r/Timbers and /r/MLS user making the jump off Reddit. My account name on Reddit was “murty_the_bearded”.

Between the fuckery that /u/spez (CEO of reddit) has been pulling and Elon’s bullshit constantly making Twitter worse and worse, I’ve been totally disconnected from MLS/Timbers news.

Hoping this place will fill that void in my life.

Cheers!