AnyDesk: They have signed the client with an old certificate (April 24, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-30 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Brief information for AnyDesk (remote desktop software). On April 24/25, 2024, the remote maintenance provider AnyDesk rolled out a "rotten" version of its AnyDesk client, which is blocked by Microsoft Defender under Windows. The background to this is that the client was digitally signed with a revoked certificate. Several blog readers have pointed out the problem to me, but I have only just got around to addressing it in the blog. On April 29, 2024 my test confirmed, that there still versions of anydesk.exe downloadable from the internet, that has been signed with the revoked certificate. Here is a brief summary of the continuation of the chaos surrounding AnyDesk.

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End of support for Office 2016 and 2019 in October 2025

Posted on 2024-04-29 by guenni

[German]Brief information for Office users and administrators. Microsoft has remind its users recently once again that support for its Microsoft Office versions 2016 and 2019 will end in October 2025. The same applies to the associated Productivity Server, i.e. administrators and IT managers must consider how to replace the relevant Office versions in companies.

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

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Broadcom: "VMware is not suitable for everyone (in the charity sector)"

Posted on 2024-04-28 by guenni

[German]There has been a lot of criticism of VMware by Broadcom's licensing policy from customers who are faced with massive price increases. Particularly in the area of charitable organizations, there are indications that Broadcom wants to withdraw with VMware. Partners who negotiate with customers in the charity sector have been told that "VMware is not suitable for everyone". Continue reading →

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Edge version 124.0.2478.51 causes issues with http pages

Posted on 2024-04-27 by guenni

Edge[German]Brief information for blog readers that Maksymilian has just pointed out to me. Microsoft's developers updated the Edge browser to version 124.0.2478.51 on April 19, 2024. However, this causes problems with (insecure) http pages and blocks downloads, for example. It's stupid when this happens on an intranet in a corporate environment. Incidentally, this also applies to the Chromium counterpart. But there is a workaround that Maksymilian provided me with (thanks for that).

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 – Update to 7a (April 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-26 by guenni

[German]Brief information for the administrators among our readers who use Veeam Backup O365 to back up data from Microsoft Office 365. The manufacturer has released cumulative patches for Microsoft 365 7a to fix some issues with the product. I had reported on such problems. The workaround suggested there should then no longer be necessary.

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Teams 2.0: Deadline for switch extended by one year to July 1, 2025

Posted on 2024-04-26 by guenni

Teams[German]Microsoft is now giving company administrators a whole year more time to switch from the classic Teams 1.x client to the new Teams 2.0 client. The original plans to force companies to switch to the new Microsoft Teams 2.0 client by April 1, 2024 are already a waste of time anyway. The previous three-month grace period until summer 2024 has simply been extended by a whole year. Continue reading →

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Office 365: After Office updates new option 'Update license' since March 2024

Posted on 2024-04-25 by guenni

[German]After the March 2024 updates, a user contacted me because he was prompted to update his license in Microsoft Office 365. The topic has been left lying around for a while, but I'm including it here in the blog – perhaps there are other readers who are affected.

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Windows 11 23H2/22H2: Preview Update KB5036980 (April 23, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-24 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5036980 for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 on April 23, 2024. The preview update brings a number of fixes for these Windows 11 versions. It is an optional update whose fixes will be rolled out generally in the following month.
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Windows 10 22H2 Preview Update KB5036979 (April 23, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-24 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5036979 for Windows 10 22H2 on April 23 (D-Week). This is intended to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 22H2 and brings minor new features (account-related notifications for Microsoft accounts). Below is an overview of these updates for Windows 10. Continue reading →

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Exchange Server April 2024 Hotfix-Updates (24. April 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-24 by guenni

Exchange Logo[German]Microsoft released hotfix updates (HU) for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 on April 24. These hotfix updates provide support for new features and are intended to resolve issues caused by the March 2024 Security Update (SU). Although the updates are optional, they bring some benefits to Exchange administrators (e.g. support for ECC certificates, Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) for OWA/ECP).

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