[German]A short note for administrators of Microsoft Exchange Server 2016: Both Microsoft Exchange 2016 and Microsoft Exchange 2019 will reach the end of support in October 2025. Microsoft has published a Techcommunity article with information on "decommissioning Microsoft Exchange 2016" in an environment with Microsoft Exchange 2019. Here a few details and thoughts about that.
[German]The August 2024 updates for Windows have caused collateral damage for Linux users. By switching the boot mechanism to Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT), the Linux boot loader refused to start on dual-boot systems following the update installation. Microsoft has now commented on the reasons and tried to explain the whole thing.
[German]Vendor QNAP has released its QTS 5.2 operating system for NAS drives on August 21, 2024. One new feature is the Security Center, which actively monitors file activity and is designed to ward off threats from encrypting ransomware. The improved system security and support for TCG-Ruby Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) also increase data protection.
[German]Brief information: I have received today information that the vendor CrowdStrike with its Flacon security solution has been causing issues again – since around 11:00 a.m. (CET) today, August 22, 2024. The reader reported issues with both the single sign-on (SSO) and the hybrid join. There are also performance problems under Windows when the CrowdStrike Falcon solution is running with a cloud connection. Here is some information about what I have.
[German]On August 21, Google released an update of the Google Chrome browser (branch 128) in the stable channel, which closes 38n vulnerabilities (some of them critical). One vulnerability is already under attack. The Extended Stable Channel and the apps for Android and iOS have also received an update. Here is an overview of these updates. Continue reading
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[German]Microsoft is not yet abandoning its AI feature "Recall" in Windows. After a real PR disaster when this feature was announced in May 2024, the project was scrapped and Microsoft wanted to reconsider. In an update on August 21, 2024, Microsoft has now announced that Recall for Copilot+ PCs will be made available again as a preview for Windows Insiders from October 2024. However, details will not be available until October 2024, when the feature in question will be made available in the Windows Insider Program (WIP) – presumably for Windows 11.
[German]I'll pull out one topic separately, which was brought to my attention by readers in comments and also directly by email. Administrators who installs the security updates from the August 2024 patch day (August 13, 2024) on their Windows systems (clients, servers) could run into the problem, that new Item-Level Targeting in GPOs is broken. Here is some information about this problem.
[German]Users who use Windows and Linux via Secure Boot on computers are likely to have a problem since August 13, 2024. Microsoft has changed something in the boot process with the August 2024 Patchday and switched boot entries from DBX to Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT). As a result, Linux installations on the affected systems no longer start in Secure Boot mode. Imho, this means switching off Secure Boot mode and waiting for updated Linux distributions.
[German]Brief note for administrators who use the load balancer LoadMaster from Progress Kemp. The provider issued a warning about a vulnerability CVE-2024-7591 in August 2024. Kemp will publish details later. Administrators using the product should update immediately.
[German]Users of Microsoft Outlook 365 (version 2407 build 17830.20138 and higher) occasionally report that the application crashes. This is caused by corrupted, server-based rules for the Microsoft 365 email account. Microsoft has now published a workaround to temporarily fix this problem.
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