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Microsoft Teams update process explained
[German]Microsoft Teams does not update via Windows Update or via Office updates. Instead, the Teams client uses its own update strategy to keep itself current. Microsoft revealed some details about the Microsoft Teams update process in October 2022.
CES AMD talk by Panoy Panay: Windows, let your future be AI
[German]At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023, Microsoft's Windows developer boss Panos Panay held a keynote with chip manufacturer AMD and addressed the future of Windows development. The message: artificial intelligence will find its way into Windows in the future … Continue reading
Exchange Reporter 3.12 available
[German]Brief note for Exchange administrators. Probably administrators of Microsoft Exchange (on-premises) installations know the Exchange Reporter by Frank Zöchling. The tool generates statistics for a Microsoft Exchange Server and outputs them as a report. Frank Zöchling released Exchange Reporter version … Continue reading
Attention: Central Adobe CA certificate expires on January 7, 2023 – no new certificate for perpetual licensing customers!
[German]Brief note for users or administrators of Adobe perpetual licensing software. A German blog reader alerted me about the expiration of a CA certificate on Adobe AEM servers or Adobe LiveCycle ES servers. As of January 7, 2023, any Adobe … Continue reading
Thunderbird can't connect via IMAP an oAuth with Exchange Online (outlook.office365.com)
[German]At the turn of the year 2022/2023, Microsoft has deactivated Basic Authentication for Exchange Online. This forced Thunderbird users into connection issues with mail servers via IMAP. Thunderbird reports that the user is authenticated (via oAuth2) but is not connected. … 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 ...
WhatsApp will discontinue support for various Android and Apple smartphones at December 31, 2022
For users of very old Apple iPhones and various Samsung Android smartphones, WhatsApp will end it's upport as of today, December 31, 2022. That means, that it's no longer possible, to install the WhatsApp app on such a device. That's … Continue reading
Thousands unpatched Citrix servers vulnerable via critical vulnerabilities
[German]Citrix has been releasing security updates for critical vulnerabilities in Citrix ADC and gateway products and issuing security alerts for them over the past few months. However, it appears that thousands of Citrix ADCs and Citrix Gateways are vulnerable with … Continue reading
Is an Exchange ProxyNotShell disaster looming at the corner?
[German]Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers that are not up to date with the latest patches are vulnerable to attacks via the ProxyNotShell vulnerabilities. Then, a couple of days ago, there was information that the hacker group FIN7 had been setting up … Continue reading
Exchange Online PowerShell V2 soon deprecated, replaced by PowerShell V3
[German]Brief note for administrators of Exchange Online instances. Microsoft announced in December 2022 that PowerShell V2 will be "deprecated" as of June 2023. From then on, the relevant PowerShell modules will no longer work. Anyone using PowerShell modules to administer … Continue reading
Thunderbird 102.6.1
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to20. December 2022 another update of the email client to version 102.6.1 released. It is a bug-fix update, which should fix some problems. In addition, a vulnerability that … Continue reading