Category Archives: Allgemein

Edge 109.0.1518.61 fixes printing issues – more bugs still open?

Posted on 2023-01-20 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released the Edge browser to the stable channel at version 109.0.1518.61 on January 19, 2023. One vulnerability is fixed. Feedback from readers confirms that the umlaut printing issue has been fixed too. It is unclear whether the autocreating … Continue reading →

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Windows 7/Server 2008 R2; Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2: Updates (10. Januar 2023)

Posted on 2023-01-11 by guenni

[German]For Windows 7 and 8.1 Ssecurity updates were released for the last time. The Windows Server counterparts 2008 R2 and 2012/R2 also received security updates on patchday. Here is an overview of these updates for Windows 7/8.1 and the corresponding … Continue reading →

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Exchange Server Security Updates (January 10, 2023)

Posted on 2023-01-11 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 as of January 10, 2023. These security updates close two vulnerabilities (Elevation of Privilege and Spoofing) in this software. These updates should be installed … Continue reading →

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Windows and the "Mark of the Web" (MotW) security problem

Posted on 2023-01-09 by guenni

[German]It was a report the other day that BlueNoroff APT hackers are using new techniques to bypass Windows' "Mark of the Web" protections that prompted me to bring the topic up again on the blog. That's because MotW, as it's … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Teams: Issues with special characters in profile names

Posted on 2023-01-02 by guenni

[German]When using Microsoft Teams, administrators should make sure that no special characters appear in the profile names. This can lead to strange errors. The Teams client may refuse to start if, for example, a round bracket appears in the profile … Continue reading →

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

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Security risk Microsoft Outlook App: Transfers credentials and mails to the cloud

Posted on 2023-01-01 by guenni

[German]At the beginning of the year 2023, I am once again bringing up a topic that I already addressed here on the blog in 2015 and in January 2021. It's about the Microsoft Outlook app, which is available for Android … Continue reading →

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Windows Optimizer version 3.4 released

Posted on 2022-12-26 by guenni

[German]Brief note for users of Windows10 XP and successor versions. There is a small project of German Windows users and software developers, who work on the optimization of Windows. The result is the Windows Optimizer (also available for English users). … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2022: Microsoft Office display issues on RDS

Posted on 2022-12-22 by guenni

[German]It's a strange bug that a blog reader just reported to me in the terminal server environment with Office. In a constellation under Windows Server 2022, reproducible display errors occur under Microsoft Office during an installation with Remote Desktop Services … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Exchange: New OWASSRF exploit method (ProxyNotShell) used by play ransomware

Posted on 2022-12-21 by guenni

[German]Security researchers at CrowdStrike have discovered a new exploit method for the NotProxyShell vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41080 and CVE-2022-41082 while analyzing several Play ransomware cases. The ransomware uses a new exploit method to bypass Microsoft's URL rewrite rules (in response to ProxyNotShel) … Continue reading →

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Windows 11 22H2: Fix for performance issues during copying files still not rolled out

Posted on 2022-12-16 by guenni

[German]Users have reported a serious drop in speed when copying large files under Windows 11 22H2 – and individual Microsoft employees as well as Microsoft itself have also confirmed this (see also the blog post Windows 11 22H2: Microsoft fix … Continue reading →

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