[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.
[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.
[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.
[German]Security researchers from SOCRadar have discovered an unsecured storage server on Microsoft Azure on which internal information about Microsoft's Bing search engine was stored. Well, the storage server, which was freely accessible to anyone, only contained unimportant stuff from Microsoft employees such as code, scripts and configuration files with passwords, keys and login data for accessing other Microsoft databases and systems.
[German]On April 9, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Below you will find an overview of the available updates. Continue reading
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[German]Various security updates for Windows Server 2012/R2 (1st ESU year) were published on April 9, 2024. Support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 expired in January 2024. However, updates for Windows Embedded Standard 7 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog. Here is an overview of these updates for Windows Server 2012/R2 and Windows Embedded Standard 7. Continue reading
[German]On April 9, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, patch day at Microsoft), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for Windows 11 23H2 to 21H2. Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 23H2 also received updates. Here are some details about these updates, which are intended to fix vulnerabilities and problems. Continue reading
[German]On April 9, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, patch day at Microsoft), various cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from the RTM version to the current version) as well as for the Windows Server counterparts. Here are some details on the respective security updates for Windows 10. Continue reading
[German]On April 9, 2024, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office and other products. The security updates address 147 vulnerabilities (CVEs), including three critical vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on Patchday. Continue reading
WordPress 6.5.2 has just been released (April 9, 2024). It is a security update of WordPress, which fixes a security issue and 12 bugs. An overview of the fixes can be found here. I have updated the blogs and have not yet discovered any problems. However, anyone updating should make a backup of the database and the old installation beforehand.
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