Microsoft Office LTSC 2024: Preview available for macOS and Windows

Posted on 2024-04-20 by guenni

[German]A short addendum or information for administrators in companies who are responsible for Microsoft Office. There will be a Microsoft Office 2024 in 2024, and a preview was announced for April 2024 (see Microsoft Office Office 2024 and Microsoft Office LTSC Office LTSC 2024: Preview in April 2024). Microsoft has now officially released the Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 version as a preview for the macOS and Windows operating systems. Interested administrators from the corporate environment can now test this Office version, which is aimed at corporate environments. The preview is explicitly not aimed at private users. Continue reading →

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Windows 10: Annoying ads about "End of Support" and for Microsoft account

Posted on 2024-04-19 by guenni

Windows[German]Users of Windows 10 22H2 must be prepared to be annoyed by various prompts soon. Firstly, there is the full-screen notification that support will end in October 2025. And there is probably a request to finally switch from a local account to a Microsoft account. According to my information, these two annoying notices will be unleashed on users in the future.

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Windows: Edge 123.0.2420.65 update from March 2024 unintentionally brings co-pilot app; no "spy function"

Posted on 2024-04-18 by guenni

Edge[German]An "accidental" update to the Microsoft Edge browser at the end of March 2024 led to parts of the Copilot app being installed on Windows 10/11 and Server. Microsoft states that this was not intentional and emphasizes that this app "does not perform any spying functions" – a remarkable statement. They want to correct this with the next update.

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Critical PuTTY vulnerability CVE-2024-31497 leaks private keys

Posted on 2024-04-18 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]The free software PuTTY can be used to establish connections via Secure Shell, Telnet, remote login or serial interfaces with a server. However, there is a critical vulnerability in the software in question (CVE-2024-31497) that can be used to reconstruct private SSH keys. PuTTY versions 0.68 to 0.80 as well as other products (FileZilla for example) are affected. However, it is not enough to update the products to a patched version, as the keys may already be reconstructed.

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Broadcom accommodates VMware customers with licenses; EU Commission sends questions

Posted on 2024-04-17 by guenni

[German]The ongoing criticism of VMware by Broadcom's licensing policy by customers may be having an impact. At least VMware by Broadcom has responded to the topic again with a blog post and wants to offer customers with perpetual licenses a "relieve". And EU competition authorities are responding to a formal complaint from CISPE and have sent Broadcom a series of questions around VMware licensing.
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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Citrix: License renewal currently not possible? VMware deprecates old web client

Posted on 2024-04-16 by guenni

[German]Question for Citrix users: Has anyone tried to renew licenses in the last few days? I have received information that there are "currently" problems getting license renewals from Citrix. And another reader has informed me that VMware is discontinuing their web client.

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US CISA orders admins in authorities to mitigate the cyber risks of the Microsoft Cloud

Posted on 2024-04-15 by guenni

[English]On April 2, 2024, the US cybersecurity authority CISA issued a directive to the administrators of US authorities requiring them to "mitigate" or eliminate the cyber risks posed to customers by a hack of the Microsoft Cloud or the Microsoft email system by Midnight Blizzard by April 30, 2024. The background to this is that state actors were able to read the email communication between customers and Microsoft during the hack and that these emails probably also contained security information for customer systems.

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VMware news: Multi-year subscriptions only? End-user products distribution under Omnissa

Posted on 2024-04-14 by guenni

[German]Here are some news about VMware by Broadcom. I have just been told that VMware by Broadcom could "soon" only accept subscriptions with terms of 3 or 5 years – but this has probably not yet been finalized. And the VMware end customer business sold by Broadcom is likely to operate under the name "Omnissa" in future.

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VMware users: Attention, portal migration to Broadcom on April 30, 2024

Posted on 2024-04-13 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Brief information for administrators and users of VMware products. VMware by Broadcom has started to clean up its portfolio and change the licenses. For people who have not yet noticed this: At the end of April 2024, the old VMware portal, where the purchased licenses are managed, will be closed and moved to a new portal. In view of the upheaval, it is advisable to back up everything from the old portal that seems important.

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Analyses: VMware acts as planned with licenses; switching to alternatives a problem

Posted on 2024-04-12 by guenni

[German]In the last few days I have come across some information about VMware by Broadcom, which I would like to summarize in a small analysis here in the blog for the interested readership. On the one hand, it looks as if VMware by Broadcom is taking a very targeted approach to licensing and pricing and wants "the big fish" as customers. I also came across an article that sheds light on what alternatives there actually are apart from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) & Co.

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