[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5035941 for Windows 10 22H2 on March 26, 2024 (D-Week). This is intended to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 22H2 and brings minor improvements (widget on lock screen, Spotlight desktop backgrounds). Below is an overview of these updates for Windows 10. Continue reading
[German]Hyper-V is a virtualization product from Microsoft. The company now sees a "bright future" for Hyper-V on Windows Server, including on Windows Server 2025. At least that is the message that Jack Woolsey from Microsoft and his team announced at the beginning of March 2024. Microsoft is probably also responding to the upheavals that Broadcom has triggered at VMware, which have made many VMware customers think about switching.
[German]Ever since Broadcom terminated the contracts of its VMware partners, streamlined its product portfolio and switched everything to (very expensive) subscriptions in the VMware Cloud, there has been a great deal of uproar. Now some small and medium sized cloud service providers are hoping that they can continue to offer VMware virtualization to their customers via white label contracts from the VMware by Broadcom CSP program. Here's a quick look at what our colleagues at The Register have found out off the record. And I received an assessment from the "partners" that sheds some light on the matter.
[German]I'm going to post an issue here in the blog that I came across a few days ago. The problem is that since the February 2024 update under Windows 10, it is no longer possible to make changes to web protocols via API calls. However, this is needed in order to be able to register other applications for handling URL calls. It looks like the February 2024 update KB5034763 is the problem.
[German]I would like to address a small problem that may affect some administrators who use the Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server. There is a bug in the tool that leads to errors when executing commands if a hyphen is used in NETBIOS names. Before anyone goes looking for a wolf, here is the relevant information.
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[German]Adobe has begun to introduce its own AI solutions in its products. There is a risk that Adobe products will begin to scan all documents in companies in order to obtain data for feeding the AI solutions. Administrators should therefore take immediate action to prevent this scanning, until it's clear what's going on. There seems to be a solution for Windows to stop scanning, but I am not aware of anything similar for macOS and other operating systems.
[German]On March 22, 2024, Microsoft released a special update with a fix for Windows Server that eliminates an LSASS memory leak caused by the March 2024 updates. I had reported here in the blog that on some systems Kerberos requests on domain controllers fill up the memory. The servers then experience performance problems or even fail and have to be restarted sporadically. This problem is to be resolved by the special updates for both local and cloud-based Active Directory DLCs. There is no fix for Windows Server 2019 yet. Addendum: The fix for Server 2019 is available since March 25, 2024.
[German]A small addendum from this week. A reader emailed me a few days ago to say that there was a problem with Microsoft Exchange in connection with a mail client with EWS. According to the reader's observations, this has been occurring since 14.3.2024: Mail clients only sporadically connect to Exchange EWS on the Mac. Here is some information about the "permanent construction site" Microsoft Exchange connection on the Mac, which I had already taken up in the blog. The problem should have been resolved since March 19, 2024.
[German]Are we currently witnessing how Broadcom is driving virtualization specialist VMware downhill? Instead of earing huge revenues, the vendor will eventually be faced with a shambles? I have often reported on the trials and tribulations of Broadcom's management. Now I have come across the fact that many VMware employees with US visas are at risk of losing their jobs, which could mean a loss of around 40% of the workforce. And the European cloud operators' association CISP is calling for the EU to intervene because it believes the business of cloud providers and customers who use VMware products is under threat. The background to this is the termination of long-standing contracts by Broadcom, together with new contracts that result in massive price increases.
[German]This week an administrator contacted me, reporting sudden connection issues with Microsoft 365 and Outlook apps. After I've published a German blog post about that observation, other German users confirmed these connection issues.
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