Yearly Archives: 2025

Windows 10 users are being forced to use the new Outlook app

[German]I'm pulling out one more topic in this blog post that will concern Windows 10 users in February 2025. Microsoft is pushing the new Outlook app onto systems with the February 2025 security update. At the same time, the Windows … Continue reading

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Attackers use ASP. NET key to spread malware

[German]In December 2024, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team observed limited activity from an unknown attacker using a publicly available, static ASP. NET machine key to inject malicious code and deploy the Godzilla post-exploitation framework.

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Windows 11 24H2: WSUS issue – missing SNMP client (FOD install fails)

[German]I'm picking up on a topic here in the blog that I've addressed a couple of days ago within my German blog. It likely causes problems for "enthusiastic" Windows 11 24H2 administrators who rely on the SNMP client (or other … Continue reading

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Microsoft 365: Annoying advertising for Python in Excel —

[German]Microsoft just can't help itself and is forcing its business customers in Microsoft 365 to advertise Python in Excel. An administrator among the blog readers pointed this out to me (thanks for that).

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

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Windows 11 24H2: Oct./Nov. 2024 patches prevent update installation

[German]Microsoft continues to struggle with update issues for Windows 11 24H2. Security updates from October and November 2024 can cause an issue, that affected machines can no longer install subsequent updates if they were set up using USB media or … Continue reading

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Microsoft 365: Outlook for Mac loses access to Exchange On-Premises from October

[German]Brief information or reminder for administrators whose users are using macOS and rely on Microsoft 365 applications. Legacy support for Outlook on the Mac will expire in October 2025. This has implications if Outlook is to access mailboxes from on-premises … Continue reading

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Critical vulnerability CVE-2025-23114 in Veeam Updater

[German]A critical vulnerability CVE-2025-23114 has been reported in the Veeam Updater. This vulnerability could be used to carry out man in the middle attacks. This affects various products from the provider. Veeam has published corresponding security updates to close the … Continue reading

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Vulnerabilities in Progress Kemp LoadMaster (Load-Balancer) Jan 2025

[German]A short note for administrators who use the load balancer LoadMaster from Progress Kemp. On February 5, 2025, a whole series of vulnerabilities affecting older versions of the software became public. The provider has released patches for these, some of … Continue reading

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HP Universal Print Driver Series (PCL 6) vulnerabilities

[German]There are vulnerabilities in older HP Universal Print printer drivers (PCL 6 and PostScript) for Windows. The background to this is that these printer drivers use the libjpeg, libpng, OpenSSL and zlib libraries and may have (older) vulnerabilities. HP has … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office 365: Ricoh Scan error "Cannot connect to SMTP server"

[German]It currently that users of multifunction printers with a scan function that use a connection to a Microsoft Office 365 SMTP server are running into issues with certain devices. Users of Ricoh devices are receiving "Cannot connect to SMTP server" … Continue reading

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