[German]By mid-October 2025, Microsoft will complete a security measure in Outlook that blocks SVG image files used in attacks. And one reader complained that certain images have not been displayed in his Outlook Classic for years.
[German]Auto-archiving for Exchange Online will be introduced worldwide for all public clouds in October 2025 and for all government clouds in November. Once archiving is enabled for Exchange Online users, the oldest items will be automatically moved from a user's primary mailbox to their archive as soon as the mailbox usage reaches 90% of the mailbox quota limit to avoid disruptions to email flow. Addendum: Apparently stopped after customer protests.
[German]U-turn after massive customer protests and probably also customer loss. The provider Synology has largely withdrawn its "hard drive requirement," which had only recently been established for NAS Plus models.
[German]Canonical released Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) on October 9, 2025. This is an interim version of Ubuntu that forms the basis for the next LTS version. This distribution comes with GNOME 49 and several other new features.
[German]Brief note to readers regarding an unfortunate development at SonicWall. There was a recent incident in which backup files of the firewall configuration were exposed. While it was initially reported that only a few accounts were affected, it has now been announced that all accounts using cloud backup are affected. Attackers were able to read the configuration information.
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[German]Quick question for blog readers who are upgrading their machines to Windows 11 25H2: Are you getting a warning that there are NVMe SSD issues? I have received information that NVMe SSDs from WD and Sandisk are causing problems when upgrading to Windows 11 25H2 and that users are being warned.
[German]There are indications that local user accounts in Windows 11 will no longer be able to be set up in the future, or only with considerable effort during setup. In the latest Insider Preview Build 26220.6772 (KB5065797) from October 6, 2025, Microsoft announced that the commands for setting up local user accounts during setup will be removed.
[German]Brief information for administrators of Microsoft Cloud services. If someone cannot access the Microsoft Admin Center, it is not your fault. Since around 10:30 a.m., the Microsoft Admin Center has been down globally because a certificate expired. This comes after Microsoft 365 experienced issues yesterday (see Microsoft 365: Outage blocks Teams and Exchange Online (Oct. 8, 2025)).
[German]There are two medium-score vulnerabilities in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensors for Windows that have been patched by the manufacturer via an update. A discussion is currently raging because CrowdStrike refers to this as an "issue," while security researchers refer to it as "closing vulnerabilities."
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2013 – 2016
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