Windows 11: Available as a release preview; Copilot coming as a store app, IoT LTSC announced

Posted on 2024-05-31 by guenni

Windows[German]One more addendum: The EU and the Digital Service Act (DSA) are working. While Microsoft has been rolling out the half-finished Copilot with Windows 10/11 in many countries for months, Redmond has only been working with the brakes on in the EU. Now, with the release of the Release Preview version of Windows 11 24H2, it has become known that users in the European Union (EU) can only obtain Copilot as an app from the Microsoft Store. Meanwhile, Microsoft has also announced Windows 11 2024 IoT Enterprise LTSC and published hardware certification rules. Here is an overview of these Windows 11 topics.

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Windows 11 23H2/22H2: Preview Update KB5037853 (May 29, 2024)

Posted on 2024-05-30 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5037853 for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 on May 29, 2024. The preview update brings a number of fixes for these Windows 11 versions. It is an optional update whose fixes will be generally rolled out in the following month. Continue reading →

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Windows 10 22H2 Preview Update KB5037849 (May 29, 2024)

Posted on 2024-05-30 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5037849 for Windows 10 22H2 on April 23 (D-Week). This is intended to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 22H2 and brings minor new features (account-related notifications for Microsoft accounts). Below is an overview of these updates for Windows 10. Continue reading →

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Edge 125.0.2535.67 update bypasses WSUS (May 2024)

Posted on 2024-05-30 by guenni

Edge[German]This smells like trouble for administrators in enterprise environments, where the Edge browser is usually used. A blog reader informed me that the Edge had updated to version 125.0.2535.67, although this is definitely not released in the WSUS.

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Windows 11: Update KB5036980 blocks activation of the Enterprise subscription

Posted on 2024-05-29 by guenni

Windows[German]A quick note for administrators who manage Windows 11 clients in corporate environments. With the April 2024 preview update KB5036980, Microsoft caused a problem for administrators who wanted to switch from Windows 11 Pro to Windows 11 Enterprise using AutoPilot. Rudy Ooms has analyzed the issue and developed a fix. Microsoft is aware of the problem and wants to release a fix – at the moment it is unclear to me whether this has already happened with the May 2024 update.

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

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Vulnerabilities in the ZScaler Client-Connector

Posted on 2024-05-28 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]A short piece of information for readers who use the ZScaler client connector in their environment. Three vulnerabilities CVE-2023-41972, CVE-2023-41973, CVE-2023-41969 have been disclosed by a security researcher. Combined correctly, these can be misused to launch an interactionless local privilege escalation attack on the connection in question.

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Windows Server 2019 OOB update KB5039705: Fails on Citrix with error 0x8007371B

Posted on 2024-05-27 by guenni

Windows[German]In mid-May 2024, Microsoft released the out-of-band update KB5039705 for Windows Server 2019, which is intended to correct the installation error 0x800f0982 of the security update KB5037765 from May 2024 on systems with a non-English language pack. However, administrators in a Citrix environment run into the problem that update KB5039705 fails with installation error 0x8007371b. However, there is a solution that can be used to try and resolve the problem.

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Customer loss at VMware; Customers switch to Nutanix AHV; Bumpy portal switch

Posted on 2024-05-27 by guenni

[German]It's time again for a little round-up article with some news from the world of Broadcom and VMware. VMware seems to be losing customers on a massive scale. I have received information that major customer Compushare is rehearsing the exit with 24,000 VMs from VMware to Nutanix. And then there is the CIO of Boyd Gaming, who is happy to have switched from VMware to Nutanix 18 months ago. The switch of the user portal from VMware to Broadcom was also turbulent for customers and caused problems with missing licenses.

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NCANCA-Insides: Lessons from the hacks in the healthcare sector

Posted on 2024-05-27 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Weeks ago, there were serious cyberattacks on Change Healthcare, a payment service provider of the UnitedHealth Group, which paralyzed the supply of medicines in the USA due to payments no longer being made. In this context, I received a document with NCA insigts a few weeks ago, which raised the question of what lessons can be learned from the hacks in the healthcare sector. In my opinion, this also applies to IT in the German healthcare sector.

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Windows 11 24H2 will be shipped without Cortana and WordPad

Posted on 2024-05-27 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has begun to remove discontinued functions in Windows 11 24H2, which is expected in fall 2024. This operating system version will now definitely come without the WordPad program. The Cortana voice assistant will also be removed for good in this version of Windows 11.

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