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Category Archives: Software
Massive price hike in license costs: Is Citrix now also copying the "Broadcom business approach"?
[German]German blog reader has told me that there are substantial price hikes for license renewals of Citrix Virtual Desktop solutions or other Citrix products. The question is "does Citrix copies the Broadcom business approach".
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft changes storage location for recordings from May 2024
[German]Brief note for administrators and users who use Microsoft Teams as a client and make recordings of meetings there. Microsoft wants to change the storage of these recordings from May 2024, away from the user's OneDrive folder and towards the … Continue reading
Synology Active Backup for Microsoft 365: Problems with the backup of Teams (March 2024)
[German]A short note for administrators who use Active Backup for Microsoft 365 from Veeam and may run into problems or an error when backing up Microsoft Teams. There are probably two traps: First, an API limit that you can run … Continue reading
Veeam Backup O365: Fails during backup of Office 365 (April 2024)
[German]Brief information for the administrators among our readers who use Veeam Backup O365 to back up data from Microsoft Office 365. A user has contacted us because he has recently encountered a backup error and asked whether other users have … Continue reading
Breaking news: Microsoft abandons ChatGPT in EU after AI recommendation
[German]Microsoft's plans to roll out its AI solution Copilot worldwide with its products do not seem to be working out very well at the end of the day. Following extreme headwinds in US congress and in the EU, I understand … Continue reading
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...
US Congress bans the use of Microsoft AI solution Copilot
[German]Microsoft is sticking to its plans to roll out Copilot to users in all kinds of products, from Windows to Office. However, the US House of Representatives has issued a strict ban on the use of Microsoft Copilot by its … Continue reading
Linux: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma; compromise of SSH servers
[German]As of Friday, March 29, 2024, Red Hat has published a warning. The latest versions of the "xz" tools and libraries contain malicious code, a backdoor, which is apparently intended to allow unauthorized access. Affected by the backdoor (vulnerability CVE-2024-3094) … Continue reading
Microsoft .NET 7 will no longer be supported on May 14, 2024
Brief information for people who use Microsoft .NET 7. This runtime environment will cease to be supported on May 14, 2024 and will no longer receive security updates.
Google Chrome 123.0.6312.86/.87
[German]Google has released an update of the Google Chrome browser (branch 123) in the stable channel on March 26, 2024, which closes seven vulnerabilities (some of them critical). The Extended Stable Channel and the app for Android have also received … Continue reading
Stop: Disable the scanning of documents by Adobe AI solutions!
[German]Adobe has begun to introduce its own AI solutions in its products. There is a risk that Adobe products will begin to scan all documents in companies in order to obtain data for feeding the AI solutions. Administrators should therefore … Continue reading