[German]ISupport for Windows 10 will end in October 2025; it will not be possible for many existing systems to switch to Windows 11. Recently, there was hope that Microsoft would offer a support extension for Windows 10 (possibly for a fee). However, Microsoft has now dashed this "dream" in a new support article – the announced end of support for "Windows 10, the 'last' Windows", as Microsoft once announced.
[German]I'd like to summarize two topics related to Outlook that readers pointed out to me yesterday. It seems that a bug has crept into Outlook 2019 that causes the program to crash when "Send from" is selected. And another reader reported that Outlook 365 was deleting self-defined rules in its environment.
[German]On November 14, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, patch day at Microsoft), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for Windows 10, Windows 11 and the Windows Server counterparts. In the meantime, readers here on the blog have commented on various posts and reported bugs. I have summarized the information on problems with the patchday in the following post.
[German]Another small addendum from this week, which I'll pull out separately. Intel has released an update of its Intel Arc and Iris Xe graphics drivers to version 31.0.101.4972. This update is supposed to fix a number of problems (e.g. with Starfield (DX12). It is not documented that this graphics driver update under Windows 11 also fixes a problem in Microsoft Office which prevents Office documents from being loaded.
[German]Microsoft is using Windows Hello in its operating system for password-free login. This is supposed to be more secure than a password, as it cannot be stolen. Security researchers were asked by Microsoft's Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) to check the security of the fingerprint sensors and thus of Windows Hello. During the evaluation, the researchers discovered several vulnerabilities and were able to trick the fingerprint sensors in Dell Inspiron 15, Lenovo ThinkPad T14 and Microsoft Surface Pro X laptops.
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[German]Brief information for administrators of Microsoft Exchange Servers who are waiting for the cumulative update for the second half of 2023. Redmond has announced that two outstanding cumulative updates (CUs) for Exchange Server 2019 will no longer be rolled out in 2023, but will be postponed to 2024. This is because no more CUs will be rolled out in December 2023. For example, TLS 1.3 support has been announced with CU14.
[German]A quick question for administrators in the readership who use Microsoft Office 365. A reader has contacted us because problems are occurring in his environment when opening mail attachments from Outlook. The attachments cannot be opened in Word or Excel. Updating the Intel® Arc™ & Iris® Xe graphics driver for Windows could help.
[German]A quick question for administrators who have installed the November 2023 security updates on Windows Server 2022. I have come across reports – mainly from English-speaking administrators – where the installation of the update KB5032198 fails with the error 0x8007000d (or 0x800f081f). The error does not seem to be that widespread, but I have found several people affected.
[German]I'm posting a reader observation about the new Microsoft Teams 2.0 client here on the blog to find out whether the problem is more widespread or an isolated case. It's about the new Teams 2.0 client, which probably still has bugs and, for example, incorrectly distributes the presence status to contacts. A reader pointed this problem out to me the other day.
[German]The new Microsoft Teams 2.0 client has been available since September 2023 and is probably being tested and partially rolled out in companies. The switch will be mandatory from April 2024 (New Microsoft Teams 2.0 client mandatory from April 1, 2024). In the last few days, I have come across a few issues and questions that I would like to address in a collective article. These range from the fact that the Outlook add-in is missing during installation to crashes of the new client.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
