Category Archives: Windows

Windows 10: PowerToys Version 0.16 released

Posted on 2020-04-01 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released version 0.16.0 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users a few hours ago. The new version brings the ImageResizer and the Window Walker.

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Windows 10 News Bar …

Posted on 2020-04-01 by guenni

[German]Sometime soon, Windows 10 will get a so-called news bar. Then important messages will be displayed above the taskbar during operation.

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Mitigating Windows 0-day ADV200006 via GPO

Posted on 2020-04-01 by guenni

[German]Small hint for administrators of large Windows environments in the Active Directory environment who need to plug the ADV200006 0-day vulnerability. Mitigation is possible using Group Policy.

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Windows 10: Updates fixes VPN bug

Posted on 2020-03-31 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released out-of-band updates for various versions of Windows 10 as of March 30, 2020 to fix the VPN bug caused by earlier updates from February 2020.

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Windows 10: Issues with daylight savings time switch in 2020

Posted on 2020-03-29 by guenni

[German]We have 2020, and Windows 10 still struggling to switch to the correct daylight savings time 2020, at least in Europe. Some machine are still in 'winter time', others changed correctly to daylight saving time, but went to a wrong … Continue reading →

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

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Windows 10 V1507 may receive Updates and Upgrades

Posted on 2020-03-29 by guenni

[German]A very short note for people who are still using an old and fresh installed Windows 10 version 1507 (RTM). It can now receive and install successfully both updates and feature upgrades.

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Windows Server: Find LDAP bindings on DCs

Posted on 2020-03-29 by guenni

[German]Another brief blog post about LDAP channel binding and LDAP signature request for Windows. How can you find LDAP bindings on a Windows Server Domain Controller?

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Windows Antivirus: Performance- & Stability issues

Posted on 2020-03-29 by guenni

[German]In this blog post I like to take up a tiresome topic. It is about the performance and stability problems caused by virus scanners on Windows 10 clients as well as on server environments. What is the cause and what … Continue reading →

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Solution for slow start of Windows Server 2016?

Posted on 2020-03-28 by guenni

[German]Some administrators are complaining about the slow restart of Windows Server 2016 during update installations. A blog reader contacted me about this and I'm bringing up the topic again in a post.

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Issues with Defender Update KB4052623 (March 2020)?

Posted on 2020-03-27 by guenni

[German]On March 24, 2020, Microsoft released update KB4052623 for the Windows Defender anti-malware platform for Windows 10. Since that time, I have received reports of problems; the offline scan is said to be broken and there are unexpected errors. None … Continue reading →

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