Category Archives: Cloud

Ignite 2018: What’s new in Microsoft Azure

Just a brief info for people who are engaged into Microsoft Azure and Cloud. At the Ignite 2018 conference Microsoft presented some new features of Microsoft Azure including cloud services. 

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Dropbox ends support for Windows 8.1

[German]Users of Windows 8.1 systems using the online storage of Dropbox have to swallow a bitter pill. Dropbox has withdrawn its support for Windows 8.1.

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Windows 10: iCloud install Media Feature Pack is missing

[German]Some users of Windows 10 get a strange error message when trying to install Apple's iCloud client. Windows says that that Media Feature Pack is missing. Here is some information about this issue.

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Security update for iCloud for Windows

A serious vulnerability in Apple's HTML rendering engine WebKit also affects the iCloud client for Windows. Apple has now released a security update of the iCloud client to fix these vulnerabilities.

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Exchange and Outlook.com down in Europe?

It seems that Microsoft's Exchange and Outlook.com services are down, at least in Europa – but I've seen also messages from Brazil. Users can't access their e-mails.

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

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Microsoft Outlook: Fix for iCloud Sync problem

[German]Users of Microsoft Outlook are facing a problem: Syncing with iCloud fails after installing June 13, 2017 security updates. Here a few details and some fixes.

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Google brings Backup and Sync for Google Drive

Google just announced an update for Backup and Sync to save and sync local files from PC or Mac to Google Drive.

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Expiring Links for OneDrive with Office 365 subscription

Microsoft has added quietly a new feature to OneDrive. Sharing files allows now to set an expiring date for the shared links. But this feature is only available for OneDrive for Business.

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Is Outlook.com down?

It seems, that Microsoft's Outlook.com has a worldwide outage. First I noticed, that a fresh outlook.de account, I set up this morning, dropped sync errors.

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Microsoft limits OneDrive for Business to 1 TB after 03/01/2017

Office 365 subscribers who are still using more than 1 TB storage on OneDrive for Business are facing a problem. Microsoft limits at March 1, 2017 the storage capacity to 1 TB. Here's what's happens within the coming months to … Continue reading

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