[German]May 2023 security updates for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 brought a nasty Explorer bug. Administrators can no longer query permissions for files in Explorer – the function hangs and leads to high CPU load. After I promptly addressed this issue here on the blog, Microsoft has now officially confirmed the bug.
[German]Microsoft Teams client is programmed a "bit strangely", as I already mentioned here in the blog. German blog reader Tom B. just emailed me about some observations on how the Microsoft Teams client handles his saved files. Perhaps this is common knowledge – I am posting the case/observations here on the blog.
[German]Mozilla developers had released the versions 114.0.1 of the Firefox browser recently. As of June 20, 2023, version 114.0.2 has been added. The release notes only contain the reference to various fixes (see here) and a fix in the Native Messaging support in the Web Extensions. Thanks to EP for the hint.
[German]There is some confusion about the Edge update to version 114.0.1823.55. This was shipped briefly, but then probably withdrawn. On the other hand, the Web-View2-Runtime is offered via WSUS in version 114.0.1823.55. I summarize some information, which reached me from my blog reader.
[German]Microsoft has already published a support article on June 19, 2023, which deals with a problem under Microsoft 365 in connection with Outlook. Outlook starts extremely slowly in certain situations and gets stuck in the startup logo. The cause is probably an unexpected switch from REST to MAPI.
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[German]Quick note for administrators who use Exchange Online as an SMTP relay to send bulk email. Microsoft is adjusting the requirements for using SMTP relay functionality accordingly as of November 1, 2023. The company made the announcement in a June 19, 2023 blog post.
[German]It's a little bit of fun that shows that Microsoft doesn't really have a handle on its AI solution ChatGPT (yet). What only Chinese bot farms have been able to do so far, could also be done with ChatGPT (or Google's Bard): Let em search valid product keys for activating Windows 10, Windows 11 (and possibly Office) from the Internet. Someone just tried this and it seems to have worked.
[German]It was hacker attacks that brought Microsoft cloud services to their knees for hours on and off since June 5, 2023. My reports here on the blog that a hacktivist group called "Anonymous Sudan" claimed responsibility didn't turn out to be an airhead at the end of the day. I had cited information on a Post Incident Report For Microsoft 365 over the weekend that described some details and countermeasures. But there is also a publicly available blog post that confirms these attacks and gives details.
Microsoft has already updated (after the Chrome security update) the Edge browser to version 114.0.1823.51 (security and bug fixes) on June 15, 2023 in the Stable and Extended Stable Channel. In the meantime, the release notes are online and state that the vulnerability CVE-2023-33145 is also closed. On June 13, 2023, version 109.0.1518.115 was patched to close the exploited vulnerability CVE-2023-307.
[German]Quick question to my blog readers who are using Microsoft 365/Office in the Current Channel. Are there any complaints that multi-page output is not possible when printing tasks (but not from calendars or mails)? I just received a user report, which I briefly introduce below.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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2017 – 2020
