Exchange Online: Auto-Archiving Rollout in October 2025 – delayed

Posted on 2025-10-10 by guenni

Exchange Logo[German]Auto-archiving for Exchange Online will be introduced worldwide for all public clouds in October 2025 and for all government clouds in November. Once archiving is enabled for Exchange Online users, the oldest items will be automatically moved from a user's primary mailbox to their archive as soon as the mailbox usage reaches 90% of the mailbox quota limit to avoid disruptions to email flow. Addendum: Apparently stopped after customer protests.

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Synology relaxes hard drive manufacturer lock for NAS Plus models

Posted on 2025-10-10 by guenni

Amazon[German]U-turn after massive customer protests and probably also customer loss. The provider Synology has largely withdrawn its "hard drive requirement," which had only recently been established for NAS Plus models.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka

Posted on 2025-10-10 by guenni

[German]Canonical released Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) on October 9, 2025. This is an interim version of Ubuntu that forms the basis for the next LTS version. This distribution comes with GNOME 49 and several other new features.

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MySonicWall Cloud Backup File Incident: All customers affected

Posted on 2025-10-10 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Brief note to readers regarding an unfortunate development at SonicWall. There was a recent incident in which backup files of the firewall configuration were exposed. While it was initially reported that only a few accounts were affected, it has now been announced that all accounts using cloud backup are affected. Attackers were able to read the configuration information.

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Windows 11 25H2: Is the NVMe problem back?

Posted on 2025-10-10 by guenni

Windows[German]Quick question for blog readers who are upgrading their machines to Windows 11 25H2: Are you getting a warning that there are NVMe SSD issues? I have received information that NVMe SSDs from WD and Sandisk are causing problems when upgrading to Windows 11 25H2 and that users are being warned.

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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 ...

Adobe Reader Version 25.001.20756: Bug with password protected files

Posted on 2025-10-09 by guenni

Bug[German]Adobe released version 25.001.20756 of its Reader on October 1, 2025. However, this version contains a bug that can cause the software to crash when opening password-protected PDF documents.

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Windows 11 setup: Microsoft will block the creation of local accounts in the future

Posted on 2025-10-09 by guenni

Windows[German]There are indications that local user accounts in Windows 11 will no longer be able to be set up in the future, or only with considerable effort during setup. In the latest Insider Preview Build 26220.6772 (KB5065797) from October 6, 2025, Microsoft announced that the commands for setting up local user accounts during setup will be removed.

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Microsoft Admin Center down – there are certificate errors (Oct. 9, 2025)

Posted on 2025-10-09 by guenni

[German]Brief information for administrators of Microsoft Cloud services. If someone cannot access the Microsoft Admin Center, it is not your fault. Since around 10:30 a.m., the Microsoft Admin Center has been down globally because a certificate expired. This comes after Microsoft 365 experienced issues yesterday (see Microsoft 365: Outage blocks Teams and Exchange Online (Oct. 8, 2025)).

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CrowdStrike: Security update for Falcon Sensor for Windows (CVE-2025-42701, CVE-2025-42706)

Posted on 2025-10-09 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]There are two medium-score vulnerabilities in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensors for Windows that have been patched by the manufacturer via an update. A discussion is currently raging because CrowdStrike refers to this as an "issue," while security researchers refer to it as "closing vulnerabilities."

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Microsoft 365: Outage blocks Teams and Exchange Online (Oct. 8, 2025)

Posted on 2025-10-09 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Yesterday noon / evening (Central European Time), October 8, 2025, there was a disruption to Microsoft 365 services. This resulted in users experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams and Exchange Online features. As the disruption occurred late in the evening, users in Europe were likely to have been less affected. After just under two hours, Microsoft managed to resolve the cause of the disruption.

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