Monthly Archives: January 2019

Microsoft terminates the meta data service for WMP/WMC

Posted on 2019-01-27 by guenni

[German]Users of Windows Media Player (WMP) and/or Windows Media Center (WMC) will facing a reduction in functionality soon. Microsoft will discontinue the metadata service used by Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center for certain versions of Windows in the … Continue reading →

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Google I/O will be held from May 7, till 9, 2019

Posted on 2019-01-27 by guenni

Google holds a developer conference once a year, the Google I/O. Traditionally, this takes place in May. Now the date for 2019 has been announced.

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Firmware Updates: Surface Laptop 2 and Go LTE Advanced

Posted on 2019-01-27 by guenni

Microsoft has released Firmware updates for its Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Go LTE Advanced. The new firmware brings stability improvements and improves the functionality of the Surface Pen with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.

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ConfigMgr Client Health Toolset

Posted on 2019-01-27 by guenni

Just a small tip for administrators in SCCM environments. Microsoft has released the ConfigMgr Client Health Toolset to simplify troubleshooting issues in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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AD and Exchange Server vulnerable via EWS API

Posted on 2019-01-26 by guenni

Another brief information for Exchange administrators. There is an unpatched vulnerability (CVE-2018-8581) on all Exchange Server versions that could be used by remote attackers to take over the machine.

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Office365 outage: a status update (01/26/2019)

Posted on 2019-01-26 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's Office365 business customers are facing an outage of Microsoft's Office365.com service since January 24, 2019. Exchange Online is partially not reachable, so email can't be send or received. Today (Saturday, January 26, 2019) a status update about that outage.

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Windows 10 1809/Server 2019: Issue with SystemGuard Launch Security Baseline settings

Posted on 2019-01-26 by guenni

[German]Brief information for administrators of Windows 10 v1809 clients or Windows Server 2019 instances. There is an issue with the Security Baseline where a newly introduced SystemGuard Launch option can cause to a blank screen when booting a UEFI system.

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Microsoft employees experienced reply-all email Armageddon

Posted on 2019-01-26 by guenni

[German]Thursday, January 24, 2019, about 11,500 Microsoft employees were probably quite annoyed because their mailboxes were flooded with 'tons of e-mails'. A configuration change to the Microsoft's Github account was the root cause of this incident.

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Will Windows 19H1 be called Windows 10 April 2019 Update?

Posted on 2019-01-25 by guenni

In spring 2019 Microsoft will release a new Windows 10 version in the 19H1 development branch. What will be the name of this Windows 19H1 version?

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Android: ES File Explorer vulnerable

Posted on 2019-01-25 by guenni

Android file manager ES File Explorer has a vulnerability that put 100 Million Users' Data at Risk. A hidden web server runs always in background.

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