Category Archives: issue

DoS vulnerability in Microsoft Skype for Business

Posted on 2018-11-28 by guenni

[German]There was a vulnerability in Microsoft Skype for Business that allowed a Denial of Service attack. Microsoft has released at least fixes for affected Skype for Business builds.

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Issues with HP Sure Click in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-11-25 by guenni

[German]Today still a blog post about HP Sure Click, which is shipped by the manufacturer with certain business PCs and should protect Windows 10 systems, but can lead to very unsightly collateral damage.

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Windows 10 V1809: Intel graphic drivers as upgrade blocker

Posted on 2018-11-22 by guenni

[German]It happens again, Microsoft has stopped the rollout of Windows 10 V1809 on systems with Intel some graphic drivers. Here are a few details about what is known so far.

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Windows 10: Nov. 2018 Patches are causing Media Player-Bug

Posted on 2018-11-22 by guenni

[German]The cumulative updates of November 13, 2018 for Windows 10 are causing issues with Windows Media Player. This issue is caused by different cumulative updates for different versions of Windows 10.

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Issues with November 2018 Office (2010); patches pulled

Posted on 2018-11-21 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has not too much luck with its Office updates released in November 2018. Two non security updates has been pulled, and a security update causes Outlook 2010 to crash.

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MS replaces Surface Pro 4 with TouchScreen issues

Posted on 2018-11-19 by guenni

[English]Some owners of a Surface Pro 4 with touch screen problems can breathe a sigh of relief. Microsoft is now exchanging some of these devices for free. Here is some information on the subject. 

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Windows 10 V1809: Network mapping broken

Posted on 2018-11-17 by guenni

[German]Again another blog post about the endless topic 'Network drive mapping doesn't work in Windows 10'. Microsoft has now admitted in a blog post that mapping network drives is broken under Windows 10 V1809.

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Outlook.com down

Posted on 2018-11-16 by guenni

A brief information for people who are using Outlook.com and have problems with the registration or the mail transfer. It's not up to you or your systems, Microsoft has some problems with Outlook.com.

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Windows 10 Activation issue fixed

Posted on 2018-11-09 by guenni

[German]It seems, Microsoft has fixed its Windows 10 activation problem, which has been affecting numerous Windows 10 users around the world. I've reported that incident yesterday.

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Windows activation server currently down? (11/8/2018)

Posted on 2018-11-08 by guenni

[German]Just a brief information for Windows users who detecting a 'missing Windows activation'. Currently the Microsoft activation servers are probably down, so that Windows activations are lost and installations are no longer activated or fall back to Windows 10 Home. … Continue reading →

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