Citrix axes Technology Professional Program

Posted on 2025-01-31 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Anyone from the readership involved in Citrix's Technology Professional Program? There must have been the "Night of the Long Knives" at the weekend, the program mentioned is to be completely discontinued at the end of the week. The community will be informed about this. This is a blow for hardcore Citrix fans who were able to "earn" an award for special community achievements through the Technology Professional Program.

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Windows 11 23H2 Preview-Update KB5050092 (Jan. 29, 2025)

Posted on 2025-01-30 by guenni

Windows[German]With a slight delay, Microsoft also released the optional cumulative (preview) update for Windows 11 23H2 (KB5050092) on January 29, 2025. This update contains corrections that can be tested and will then be rolled out generally as fixes in the following month. Mention should be made of the correction of the audio problems that became known a few days ago.

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Detailed road map for deleting unlicensed OneDrive accounts

Posted on 2025-01-30 by guenni

[German]Another update today on the subject of "unlicensed OneDrive accounts", which Microsoft intends to archive or delete after 93 days. This was actually supposed to start on January 27, 2025. Microsoft has now presented a slightly updated schedule of when what is to happen.

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Windows 10/11: Preview Updates Jan. 2025

Posted on 2025-01-29 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released optional cumulative (preview) updates for Windows 10 22H2 (KB5050081) and Windows 11 24H2 (KB5050094) on January 28, 2025. These updates contain corrections that can be tested and are then generally rolled out as fixes in the following month. It should be noted that preview updates must be manually initiated for download and installation by default (although Windows 11 22H2 and later contains options for automatic installation).
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Microsoft account: Users will remain logged in from Feb. 2025

Posted on 2025-01-29 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Brief information for users who sign in to services online with Microsoft accounts. From February 2025, Microsoft wants to keep users signed in when they leave the service. This could become a problem if multiple users or accounts are used and there is no logout.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Windows: January 2025 updates cause audio issues

Posted on 2025-01-28 by guenni

Windows[German]The January 2025 security updates can cause audio problems in several Windows versions (clients and servers). Microsoft has just documented this for Windows 11 24H2, Windows 10 22H2, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016. The updates mainly affect USB 1.0 audio units in special environments.

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Windows 11 24H2/Server 2025 with huge Hyper-V bug?

Posted on 2025-01-28 by guenni

Windows[German]An administrator recently pointed out a very unpleasant finding to me. The Hyper-V virtualization solution promoted by Microsoft can hardly be used in certain scenarios (on AMD and Intel CPUs) to run multiple virtual machines under Windows 11 24H2 or Windows Server 2025. The reason for this is that the operating system does not provide any performance data and the scheduler cannot distribute the resources to the VMs properly.

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TrendMicro Apex One Update 13150 kills SmartScan

Posted on 2025-01-27 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]A short note to administrators and IT service providers among the blog readers who use TrendMicro Apex One for themselves or their customers. The update 13150 available for this security solution should be used with caution. A blog reader has informed me (thank you) that the update may kill the SmartScan function.

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Dell Alienware Command Center causes high CPU load in Windows

Posted on 2025-01-26 by guenni

Windows[English]A little snippet of information that came to my attention recently. Frank Lesniak has been struggling for months with a randomly occurring CPU load under Windows. After some searching, he discovered that the Dell Alienware Command Center was the cause of the observed performance losses under Windows.

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Exchange Server 2016 / 2019 reach their EOL in October 2025

Posted on 2025-01-25 by guenni

Exchange Logo[German]A short reminder for administrators of Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 installs, that should and should be on the radar since months. In October 2025, both Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 will no longer be supported. Microsoft has recently drawn attention to this fact and outlined migration paths as offered.

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