[German]The provider of backup solutions, Veeam, had been thinking about supporting the Proxmox virtualization platform for some time. Veeam now plans to present this solution for the first time at the VeeamON 2024 event at the beginning of June 2024. So anyone who uses Veeam to back up VMware products and switches to Proxmox VE can expect corresponding support there too.
[German]When installing the May 2024 Patchday Update KB5037765 on non-English-speaking Windows Server 2019 instances, this process stalls error 0x800f0982. This error has kept some administrators busy. While I proposed a workaround – install the English language pack – as a solution at an early stage, Microsoft has now also responded. There is a support article in which the error is confirmed.
[German]On May 14, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Below you will find an overview of the available updates. Continue reading
[German]Various security updates for Windows Server 2012/R2 (1st ESU year) were published on May 14, 2024. Support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 expired in January 2024. However, updates for Windows Embedded Standard 7 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog. Here is an overview of these updates for Windows Server 2012/R2 and Windows Embedded Standard 7. Continue reading
[German]On May 14, 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
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[German]Microsoft seems to have hit a colossal bug in the cumulative updates distributed on May 14, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, patch day at Microsoft). The update KB5037765 intended for Windows Server 2019 fails with the installation error 0x800f0982. More than half a dozen readers have already reported the problem – it probably does not affect English installations. Another reader has reported that he can no longer access his Server 2019 with RDP. Continue reading
[German]On May 14, 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, with the KB5037765 update for Server 2019 failing with error code 0x800f0982. Continue reading
[German]On May 14, 2024, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office and for other products. The security updates fix 49 vulnerabilities (CVEs), including three critical vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on Patchday.
[German]I'm posting here an observation from readers that relates to Microsoft's Azure and Microsoft 365 services. Since mid-April 2024, there have been cyclical accesses to various domains that list "collector" as a subdomain. Virustotal probably has no complaints, so it's not a security issue. It is now clear to me what exactly is causing these accesses.
[German]Administrators have been complaining for some time about sporadic problems with Single Sign On (SSO) under Microsoft's Azure Entra ID. Users are then sporadically unable to log in to their Microsoft 365 apps. Now there seems to be confirmation from a reader that Microsoft has confirmed this in internal status pages for Enterprise customers.
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