[German]On June 11, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, patch day at Microsoft), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for Windows 11 23H2 to 21H2. Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 23H2 also received updates. Here are some details about these updates, which are intended to fix vulnerabilities and problems. Continue reading
[German]On June 11, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, patch day at Microsoft), various cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from the RTM version to the current version) as well as for the Windows Server counterparts. Here are some details on the respective security updates for Windows 10, whereby Windows 10 version 21H2 has now reached the end of life and will no longer receive updates in the future.
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[German]On June 11, 2024, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office and other products. The security updates fix 51 vulnerabilities (CVEs), including one critical vulnerability. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on Patchday. Continue reading
[German]Warning of an extremely unpleasant thing. Hewlett Packard (HP) has released a broken BIOS version that turns notebooks of the HP Probook 445 G7 455 G7 models from 2020 into expensive paperweights. You should not install the BIOS update 01.17.00 under any circumstances, as a reader told me.
[German]I have received a user report that Outlook 365 can cause problems when searching. A reader contacted me about this. There were workarounds to get around the problem. However, on June 7, 2024, Microsoft published a support article stating that the problem had been fixed. Here is a brief overview of this issue.
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[German]At the end of April 2024, all customer accounts with licenses were due to be migrated from VMware to Broadcom. Since mid-May 2024, all VMware customers should have been able to find their data in the new Broadcom portal. But I have received reports that the portal migration is running very smoothly and customers are missing their licenses. I would therefore like to ask those readers who are affected by the migration whether it went smoothly for a VMware customer and what experiences you have had with the move to the new portal?
[German]It was an absolute bombshell when Microsoft unveiled its "Copilot+PC" concept including the AI function Recall. Security experts tore Recall apart as an absolute nightmare because it opens up the possibility for cybercriminals to access user information. After a powerful headwind, Microsoft has now announced that Recall will be made available as an "opt-in" under Windows 11. In addition, security is to be provided by means of Windows Hello. But is this accurate, or is Recall simply bullshit?
[German]Brief information, although I don't know exactly how relevant the topic is for the readership of this blog. The provider of programs such as AnyStream, CloneDVD etc., redfox.bz, has been unavailable online for a few days now. Something happened sometime this week – the website is dead – and the question arises as to whether the plug was pulled for legal reasons? If so, the provider would have suffered the same fate as SlySoft.
[German]The end of support for Windows 10 in October 2025 is already casting its shadow. New AMD processors and chipsets for desktop systems and mobile devices were recently presented at Computex 2024. It was noticed that some of the AMD chipsets in question will only receive drivers for Windows 11. There are no Windows 10 drivers specifically for mobile devices.
[German]A blog reader has contacted me by e-mail, because he faced an issue. On a Windows Server 2022, the "SMTP Server" feature is uninstalled with every update installation. This has now happened for the second time around Patchday. After researching, the feature has already been quoted as deprecated in Windows Server 2012 and will be dropped in Windows Server 2025. Microsoft seems to remove the role via monthly security updates.
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