Category Archives: Windows

Windows 10: Application Compatibility Toolkit blocked

[German]A brief information for administrators of Windows 10 clients. Microsoft has started blocking older versions of the Application Compatibility Toolkit on Windows 10.

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ConfigMgr user get now an Intune license

[German]A brief Information from the MS Ignite 2019 conference currently taking place in Florida. Users who have a license for the SCCM ConfigMgr now also have an Intune license to manage their devices.

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Windows: first BlueKeep Metasploit in the wild

[English]Security researchers have now probably seen for the first time a meta sploit on the net that wants to exploit the BlueKeep vulnerability and tries to install Crypto-Miner. At the moment, however, this exploit still ends with BlueScreens.

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Pending Update Issue with Windows Server 2012

[German]A blog reader recently informed me about an observation he made during updating Windows Server 2012 (not R2). Maybe someone has observed that behavior and know a solution. Addendum: Solutions are known.

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Windows 10 19013.1000 (KB4528332) for Insider

[German]Microsoft released update KB4528332 for Windows 10 20H1 to Windows Insider on November 1, 2019 (see the addendum within the Windows Blog). The update contains no changes and fixes, but raises the build to 19013.1000. The goal is to test … Continue reading

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

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Operating System/Windows Share(October 2019)

[German]After October 2019 is over, I would like to take a look at the operating system share on the desktop. Is Windows 7 finally drops at 2% share and what's about Windows 10?

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PowerToys v0.13 released

[German]A few hours after the release of PowerToys v0.12, Microsoft's developers have added the update to PowerToys v0.13. This is a maintenance update that fixes some bugs.

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Trend Micro WFBS 10.0 SP1: Patch Build 2178 reports Spyware

[German]A brief addendum to Trend Micro WFBS 10.0 SP1: Patch Build 2178. It looks like this patch is causing some minor issues. Several readers reported, that suddenly a spyware infection is reported on the clients during the scan.

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Windows: Timeout with TLS connections [Workaround]

[German]Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and various Windows Server versions have timeouts in TLS connections after installing the latest October 2019 updates. Microsoft has confirmed these TLS timeouts in a support article.

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PowerToys v0.12 Beta released

[German]Microsoft has released another preview version 0.12 of the PowerToys for Windows 10 users. As a new feature the PowerRename Windows Shell Extension has been added.

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