Microsoft Teams Classic expires on July 1, 2025

Posted on 2025-04-30 by guenni

Teams[German]Microsoft will soon block Microsoft Teams clients that have not been updated for 90 days. On July 1, 2025, however, users who are still using the old Microsoft Teams Classic (1.0) client are threatened with the end. After this date, this client will no longer be available and will no longer work. An update to the Teams New (2.0) client will be required.

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Confusion about 0-Click-NTLM Authentication Bypass (Telnet) in Windows

Posted on 2025-04-30 by guenni

Windows[German]I have just come across information about a vulnerability in the Microsoft Telnet server. The vulnerability is said to allow a -Click-NTLM Authentication Bypass. Fortunately, only old systems up to Windows Server 2008 R2 are affected. Telnet should be deactivated an such old Windows servers, in case, it's activated.

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When Oracle turns off your hospital IT

Posted on 2025-04-29 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]A nasty surprise for some clinics and their IT departments. Maintenance technicians from the US provider Oracle unintentionally deleted critical resources during support. As a result, the IT "lights went out" at 45 clinics that were Oracle customers. Oracle Health was no longer running. The clinics had to fiddle with paper and pencil for days. Go to the cloud, they said in IT, you're not responsible there.

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Kali Linux: Updates fail due to "lost" key

Posted on 2025-04-29 by guenni

[German]The developers of Kali Linux have frozen their repository for a few days, meaning that updates to the operating system may fail. The reason for this is a lost repository key for signing the files.

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Windows Server 2025: Hotpatching need a subscription from July 1, 2025

Posted on 2025-04-29 by guenni

[German]Microsoft offers a so-called hot patching option to Windows Server 2025,  so that restarts can be suspended during the monthly security updates. Redmond has now announced that this feature need a subscription ans will be charged from July 1, 2025 onwards.

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

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New evaluation system: Microsoft wants to get rid of "underperformers"

Posted on 2025-04-28 by guenni

[German]New appraisal system: Microsoft wants to get rid of "underperformers "Microsoft management has plans to get rid of some of its employees who are underperforming. To this end, a new appraisal system is being introduced in the 51st year of the company's history to identify such employees. This emerges from an internal email to managers, which is available to Business Insider.

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Active user count stagnate with Microsoft's CoPilot and increase with OpenAI ChatGPT

Posted on 2025-04-28 by guenni

Copilot[German]Sobering figures and a "slap in the face for Microsoft". Their CoPilot, offered by Sauer-Bier, has been stuck at 20 million weekly users for a year now. OpenAI, on the other hand, can look back on increasing user numbers with ChatGPT and currently has 400 million active users per week.

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OneDrive crashes? OneDrive issues? Windows Server 2019 reboots?

Posted on 2025-04-28 by guenni

[German]I'm going to combine some  problem reports in the Windows Server environment into one collective post. A blog reader informed me yesterday that Microsoft OneDrive was crashing under Windows Server 2016. And I got a report about OneDrive issues during the weekend. I also saw a report on the patchmanagement.org mailing list about a boot loop on Windows Server 2019 in connection with the April 2025 security updates. The question is whether there are more people affected.

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Windows 11 23H2: Update KB5055629 causes weather widget issues in lock screen

Posted on 2025-04-27 by guenni

Windows[German]I'm dropping an observation here in the blog that a blog reader pointed out to me by email. The preview update KB5055629 released for Windows 11 23H2 could cause "collateral damage". The reader ran into problems with the unintentionally activated weather widget, which made it difficult to log out.

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Former MS developer says: "Windows as a Service acts as an adversary tool"

Posted on 2025-04-27 by guenni

Windows[German]An ex-Microsoft software engineer from Windows development has unflattering things to say about the current operating systems from Redmond. The former Microsoft software developer explains why Microsoft has switched to Windows as a Service and describes the current Windows (10/11) as "a tool that acts a bit like an adversary". Below you will find the core statements of the ex-Microsoft employee, as well as some comments on my part, set in […].

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