[German]Brief information for the administrators among our readers who use Veeam Backup O365 to back up data from Microsoft Office 365. A user has contacted us because he has recently encountered a backup error and asked whether other users have had similar experiences. However, there is a workaround to get around the problem. Addendum: An update to fix the issue has been released.
[German]There is a vulnerability in Windows (CVE-2024-21320) that exposes NTLM credentials about Windows topics. Microsoft patched the vulnerability CVE-2024-21320 in January 2024. This patch provides a policy to prevent the exposure of NTLM credentials when theme files are located on network drives. ACROS Security has now released a micropatch for the 0patch agent that generally closes the vulnerability (without registry intervention).
[German]The US Cyber Safety Review Board has now published its report on the hack of Microsoft Online Exchange in the summer of 2023 by the suspected Chinese group Storm-0558. The board's conclusion: Microsoft can't do security! And certainly not in its own cloud. A "cascade" of errors, committed by Microsoft or its employees, is responsible for the hack of the Microsoft Cloud and Microsoft Online Exchange accounts.
[English]Microsoft has already announced that there will be an ESU program (Extended Security Updates Program) for Windows 10, which will no longer be supported on 14 October 2025. Even private users will be able to purchase extended security updates for their Windows 10 installations. However, it was previously unclear how much this ESU extension, which is to be purchased on an annual basis, would cost. Now, for the first time, Microsoft has named prices for ESU licenses for support renewal, which start at 61 US dollars for the first year.
WordPress 6.5 (Regina) has just been released (April 2, 2024). It is the first update of WordPress in 2024. An overview of the new features can be found here – and a summary can be found here, here and 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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[German]There are innovations from the VMware by Broadcom front. The company plans to publish two new releases of its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in 2024 and 2025. These should be better tailored to "customer needs" and simplify their virtualization job. Can these plans stop VMware customers from migrating to other platforms? The statements made by Broadcom/VMware executives to The Register certainly sound like a mockery to me (customers haven't yet understood how good we are for them). The European CISPE has probably lodged something of a competition complaint with EU policy makers.
[German]Small piece of information for administrators in the VMware ESXi virtualization environment who have been thinking about migrating from this manufacturer to other platforms since the takeover by Broadcom. The developers of the Proxmox platform introduced an import wizard for VMware ESXi-based virtual machines at the end of March 2024. This should greatly simplify the transfer of virtual machines. Here is a brief overview of what it is all about and what you should know.
Windows 10 is no longer as "hip" as Windows 11, but it might be interesting to have an overview of which Intel processors are compatible with Windows 10. After all, this operating system is still supported in the IoT Enterprise LTSC versions until 2031. A few days ago, Lothar posted a comment "Does my Intel® processor support Microsoft Windows® 10?" in the discussion area (thanks for that) and referred to the article "Does My Intel® Processor Support Microsoft Windows® 10?" from Intel.
[German]Microsoft's plans to roll out its AI solution Copilot worldwide with its products do not seem to be working out very well at the end of the day. Following extreme headwinds in US congress and in the EU, I understand that Redmond has decided to postpone the rollout of Microsoft Copilot indefinitely. I did some research behind the scenes and came across a surprising reason for this decision. I was told, the recommendation was made from an AI model.
[German]Microsoft is sticking to its plans to roll out Copilot to users in all kinds of products, from Windows to Office. However, the US House of Representatives has issued a strict ban on the use of Microsoft Copilot by its employees. This is the next blow to Microsoft's AI solution, while a ban on the use of the free version of ChatGPT by employees was already enacted in June 2023. Only the paid version was permitted within certain limits. The background to this is that Microsoft's Copilot is considered a security risk because there is a danger that data from the House of Representatives will be passed on to cloud services not approved by the House of Representatives.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
