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Microsoft's November 2025 Patch Tuesday has delivered security fixes for 63 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, SQL Server, Azure components, Dynamics 365, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Edge, marking a sharp drop from October's unusually high patch count but introducing its own urgency. Among the more notable are remote code execution issues in graphics components and GDI+ that can be triggered via malicious documents or images, and elevation-of-privilege flaws in core networking and service components such as the Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock and Broadcast DVR services. Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve ESU enrollment glitches that left some systems unable to fetch patches, but administrators still face the task of inventorying Windows 10 machines, confirming their ESU status, and planning long- term migration paths to supported operating systems such as Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025.