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Monthly Archives: January 2019
Windows Update Service globally disturbed? (01/31/2019)
[German]Currently it seems, that Microsoft's Update Services are globally disturbed. Users around the world are reporting, that Windows Update can't reach Microsoft's update servers. I've a Windows 10 test machine, where I confirmed this issue.
Windows Defender Update KB4052623 is causing Secure Boot issues (01/28/2019)
[German]Windows Defender anti-malware platform update KB4052623 from January 2019 prevents Windows 10 systems from starting with Secure Boot. In addition, an activated AppLocker blocks downloads. But there are workarounds for both issues .
Posted in issue, Security, Update, Windows
Tagged issue, KB4052623, Update, Windows 10, Windows Defender, Windows Server 2016
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VirtualBox 6.0.4 available
[German]Oracle's developers released Virtualbox version 6.0.4 on January 28, 2019. It is a maintenance release which provides bugfixes for the virtualization software.
Windows Defender with Update issues (01/30/2019)?
[German]Just a brief notification for users of Windows Defender. It've seen independant reports, that Windows Defender has issues and can't update since today.
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
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Google Chrome 72 released
[German]Google's developers have just released the Google Chrome 72 browser. This new version 72.0.3626.81 for the desktop fix some vulnerabilities and comes with new features.
Office365.com outage fixed, Microsoft 365 facing now new issues 01/29/2019)
[German]Today Microsoft reported that the major outage of Office365.com last week was fixed. But now Microsoft 365-/Office365.com users can no longer access safe links in emails. And outages of Azure, Outlook, Skype etc. are also floating in.
EOS: Microsoft encourage IE 10 users to shift to IE 11
[German]Internet Explorer 10 will reach its End of Support (EOS) at End of 2019. Microsoft encourage IE 10 users to shift to IE 11 till the end of this year. This affects users of Internet Explorer 10 who are running … Continue reading
Bluetooth 5.1 improves support for location services
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has released version 5.1 of the Bluetooth Core spezification. This offers a new direction finding feature with direction recognition and centimeter accurate position detection that significantly improves Bluetooth-based location services. It enables the development … Continue reading
Windows 10 V1809: User profile service refuses domain login
[German]A few days ago, a German blog reader sent me a mail about an issue he was facing. After migrating from Windows 7 clients to Windows 10 V1809, the clients could not logon to a domain because the user profile … Continue reading
Google Chrome get drive by download protection
Google's Chrome browser will get a protection feature to block dangerous drive-by downloads. This should prevent the distribution of malware via this channel.