[German]Brief information for Office users and administrators. Microsoft has remind its users recently once again that support for its Microsoft Office versions 2016 and 2019 will end in October 2025. The same applies to the associated Productivity Server, i.e. administrators and IT managers must consider how to replace the relevant Office versions in companies.
[German]There has been a lot of criticism of VMware by Broadcom's licensing policy from customers who are faced with massive price increases. Particularly in the area of charitable organizations, there are indications that Broadcom wants to withdraw with VMware. Partners who negotiate with customers in the charity sector have been told that "VMware is not suitable for everyone". Continue reading
[German]Brief information for blog readers that Maksymilian has just pointed out to me. Microsoft's developers updated the Edge browser to version 124.0.2478.51 on April 19, 2024. However, this causes problems with (insecure) http pages and blocks downloads, for example. It's stupid when this happens on an intranet in a corporate environment. Incidentally, this also applies to the Chromium counterpart. But there is a workaround that Maksymilian provided me with (thanks for that).
[German]Brief information for the administrators among our readers who use Veeam Backup O365 to back up data from Microsoft Office 365. The manufacturer has released cumulative patches for Microsoft 365 7a to fix some issues with the product. I had reported on such problems. The workaround suggested there should then no longer be necessary.
[German]Microsoft is now giving company administrators a whole year more time to switch from the classic Teams 1.x client to the new Teams 2.0 client. The original plans to force companies to switch to the new Microsoft Teams 2.0 client by April 1, 2024 are already a waste of time anyway. The previous three-month grace period until summer 2024 has simply been extended by a whole year. Continue reading
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[German]After the March 2024 updates, a user contacted me because he was prompted to update his license in Microsoft Office 365. The topic has been left lying around for a while, but I'm including it here in the blog – perhaps there are other readers who are affected.
[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5036980 for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 on April 23, 2024. The preview update brings a number of fixes for these Windows 11 versions. It is an optional update whose fixes will be rolled out generally in the following month.
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[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5036979 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
[German]Microsoft released hotfix updates (HU) for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 on April 24. These hotfix updates provide support for new features and are intended to resolve issues caused by the March 2024 Security Update (SU). Although the updates are optional, they bring some benefits to Exchange administrators (e.g. support for ECC certificates, Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) for OWA/ECP).
[German]I just reported how the Store team has started repackaging Store apps. An executable .NET wrapper is slapped around the store apps, which smuggles telemetry and other code into the app. This is intended to simplify the installation of store apps and save a click. And by the way, the Microsoft strategists have also opened up a DLL hijacking gap that can serve as a gateway for malware.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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2017 – 2020
