[German]A quick question for Exchange Online administrators. A reader reports problems with the delivery of mails that are delivered from on-premises Exchange servers. Since the November 2023 patchday, these are supposed to be moved directly to quarantine after acceptance. The recipient of the emails therefore never receives them in their Exchange Online mailbox.
[German]On November 21, 2023, the Mozilla developers released the new Firefox 120 and the maintenance update of Firefox 115.5 ESR. Firefox 120 is a new development branch. Here is a brief overview of the updates in question, including the fixes and new features. Thanks to the readers for their comments.
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[German]For months, users of the Microsoft Office 365 suite have been suffering from the fact that they suddenly receive error 1001 when trying to log in. I had already addressed the issue here in the blog. After Microsoft confirmed the issue and published a temporary workaround, a (partial) fix is now probably available. However, the update in question probably only catches some of the scenarios that are responsible for the login error. Continue reading
[German]I'm posting a topic here on the blog that a reader brought to my attention by email recently. Another reader has confirmed that behavior. The reader is an administrator in a corporate environment and is currently testing the new Microsoft Teams 2.0 client with around 20 users. He has noticed that the standard Microsoft backgrounds cannot be used in Teams 2.0. Custom backgrounds, on the other hand, can be used. Has anyone else noticed this?
[German]I'll bring up some information as a separate post. In the past, there was a case where users may not have been able to use their Microsoft Teams accounts on all Android devices certified for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft has declared this problem, which has existed since mid-June 2023, to be resolved as of November 6, 2023.
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[German]Small addendum from the November 2023 patchday. With the security updates from October 2023, the problem occurred that the group policies for "Settings Page Visibility" no longer applied under Windows 11 22H2. A reader had noted this here in the blog. If I haven't completely missed it, this bug was fixed with the November 2023 security updates.
[German]Microsoft recently fixed a bug in conventional Outlook that caused problems when saving attachments. The problem has annoyed Outlook 365 users since July 2023 who wanted to save attachments to network shares. The saving processes took a very long time or aborted. Microsoft now claims to have fixed the bug, but is first testing it on a Windows Insider Preview version.
[German]It is a real quake and the employees of OpenAI are probably shocked. The founder and figurehead of OpenAI has been fired as CEO and Greg Brockman has also been removed from the board. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati is to take over as CEO on an interim basis. Microsoft was probably informed a minute before the whole thing became public.
[German]Microsoft offers its Microsoft Teams client both on the desktop and for mobile devices. The MS Teams client on Android has the shortcoming that it does not support chats. A reader pointed this out to me by email. I'll post it here in the blog as information and possibly for discussion. It seems, that it's a Microsoft license thing.
[German]Good news for Windows 11 users who want to download a Windows 11 23H2 installation image from the Microsoft servers using the Media Creation Tool (MCT) and put it on a USB stick. After the Media Creation Tool (MCT) was previously only able to download Windows 11 22H2 from the Microsoft servers, this has now changed. A Windows 11 23H2 installation image can now be created on a USB stick using the Media Creation Tool (MCT).a Creation Tool available
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