[German]On September 9, 2025, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, and other products. The security updates address 81 vulnerabilities (CVEs), eight of which are critical, two of which were classified as zero-day vulnerabilities and are publicly known. Below is a brief overview of these updates, which were released on Patch Day.
[English]It seems to be turning into a never-ending story: SSD problems under Windows 11 24H2, presumably triggered by the cumulative security update KB5063878 from August 12, 2025. After an explanation and a fix were provided for a Japanese Windows 11 24H2 via preview update KB5064081 on August 29, 2025, I came across another explanation for possible SSD problems with SSDs with Phison controllers.
[German]Citrix has announced to replace its old, file-based (legacy) licenses with a new cloud-based "License Experience." It comes with telemetry-driven improvements, renders the old license servers obsolete, and will be mandatory for customers starting April 15, 2026.
[German]Since Friday, September 5, 2025, users of Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams have noticed that links can no longer be opened. The cause is Microsoft's anti-spam service, which blocks these links for individual users and even moves emails into quarantine. Microsoft is currently working to resolve this issue.
[German]Ahead of the September 2025 Patch Tuesday on September 8, 2025, Microsoft has released a hotfix update for the on-premises Exchange Server versions still under support (Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE), Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Server 2016). Hotfix versions are not tied to the Patch Tuesday release schedule because they do not contain security updates, only functional bug fixes. Currently, an archiving issue in hybrid environments is being fixed.
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[German]The Tor Project has just released the beta version of a VPN app for Android. The app allows internet traffic to be routed through the Tor network.
[German]There appears to be a bug in the Android app for Nextcloud that is not insignificant in terms of data protection. Media content uploads are distributed across different folders belonging to different instances (accounts), even if this is not what the user intended.
[German]It's September 2025, and Statcounter has released its latest figures on desktop operating system distribution for the end of August 2025. With Windows 10 support ending in October 2025, Windows 11 is really the only option for many users. So what exactly do the market shares for Windows on the desktop look like? And what's about macOS and Linux on the desktop?
[German]Administrators in companies that use conditional access policies for Azure DevOps sign-ins in Microsoft Entra need to take action. Starting September 2, 2025, Microsoft Entra will discontinue the application of conditional access policies via Azure Resource Manager for Azure DevOps sign-ins. Full implementation will take place by September 18, 2025.
[German]The developers of the Debian project have released version 13.1 on September 6, 2025. This is according to an announcement by the team. It is the first update to the stable distribution Debian 13 (Trixie).
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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2017 – 2020
