Monthly Archives: July 2022


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Office 2016/2019 will lose access to Microsoft 365 starting October 2023

[German]Microsoft Office users may face some unpleasant surprise in 2023. From April 2023, support for Office 2013 will end – but more importantly, from October 2023, the ability to access services for Microsoft 365 from Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 … Continue reading

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Does Google want to make it easier to select the Chrome browser as the default browser in Windows 10/11?

[German]The developers of the Google Chrome browser are discussing simplifying the mechanism for selecting the default browser on Windows. A simple mouse click on a button should be enough in the future, instead of chasing the user into the settings … Continue reading

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Windows Server 20H2 reaches end of support in August 2022

[German]Another short announcement at the end of the month, which I'm not sure will reach anyone else in the readership. Microsoft Windows Server 20H2 will receive security updates for the last time on August 9, 2022, i.e. in a few … Continue reading

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Cyberattack cripples U.S. managed service provider NetStandard on 7/26/2022

[German]On July 26, 2022, U.S. managed service provider NetStandard was arguably the victim of a successful cyberattack. The attack resulted in the company having to shut down its MyAppsAnywhere cloud services, consisting of hosted Dynamics GP, Exchange, Sharepoint and CRM … Continue reading

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

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Amazon Drive will shutdown at the end of 2023

[German]Amazon is discontinuing its online storage and cloud service Amazon Drive for customers for 11 years. That's according to an email that affected Amazon customers must have received. However, the end is not until December 31, 2023. Advertising

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Intel GPU driver updates for 6th-10th gen CPUs only for security issues

[German]Intel once again makes a cut on July 27, 2022 and declares graphics drivers for graphic units of older CPUs as obsolete. On this date, all graphics drivers for GPUs of Intel processors of generations 6 to 10 will be … Continue reading

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Thunderbird 102.1.0

[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client on July 26, 2022. This should fix a number of bugs and is already the second bug fix update within a few days for the recently released 102 … Continue reading

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SysAdmin Day: The cloud, security and backup risks

[German]Today, July 29, is the International Day of the System Administrator, a day for all the IT professionals who do their best every day to somehow keep the IT systems running and secure against cyber threats. I assume that this … Continue reading

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Windows 10 22H2: Insider Preview Update KB5015684 and release date hints

[German]Microsoft will also release a feature update for Windows 10 to version 22H2 in the second half of 2022. Now, the update KB5015684 is available as a preview for Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel to unlock the new … Continue reading

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Microsoft 365 services has been down (July 28, 2022)

[German]Not only Cisco Webex is down, I have also received reports of disruptions from AWS for North America (see Cisco Webex has been down (July 28, 2022)). Microsoft's cloud services (Microsoft 365) also seem to have been affected. At least, … Continue reading

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