[German]Owner of a Microsoft Surface Pro X suddenly face a big problem. The cameras of the ARM tablet fails since May 23, 2023. The forums are full of reports from affected users – and one blog reader has also contacted me because several customers are affected at once. There is a workaround of sorts to reset the date on the device to May 22, 2023.
[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5026436 for Windows 11 version 21H2 on May 23, 2023. There are a number of new features and especially a long list of bug fixes (for printers, for search, for LSASS, for login etc.). Below I give an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5026435 for Windows 10 22H2 on May 23, 2023 (C-Week). This is supposed to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 22H2. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 10. The information about the updates can be found in the Windows 10 update history page.
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[German]Brief information for WordPress users who use the plugin "WP to Twitter" to automatically submit blog posts as tweets on Twitter. The plugin has been suspended by Twitter "for violation of the rules" as of May 23, 2023.
[German]Anyone who has a user account with Google should also use it. Otherwise its loss is imminent and there might be problems if data or email addresses etc. are connected to this account. This is what Google has announced the days in a message about the change of its guidelines for deleting inactive user accounts. It will start at the end of the year 2023.
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[German]It's a problem that some users experience with Windows: Internet SATA hard drives and SSD drives are shown as removable. This of course makes no sense and there have been instructions to fix this since Windows 7. The problem occurs up to Windows 11. Recently, Microsoft has now published a support post with instructions for a fix to this issue.
[German]The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has imposed a record fine of 1.3 billion euros on Facebook parent Meta. The reason was the transfer of personal data of European users to the US without their consent – which was considered a GDPR violation.
[German]IT security should not be a question of money – these are often pretextual excuses. MVP Tom Wechsler has put some thought into the topic and shows how you can even use PowerShell and a few lines of code to research IT security problems. In a post on Microsoft's Techcommunity, he gives an overview of how to analyze IT threats using PowerShell.
[German]Anyone in the readership having issues with RDP connections to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) these days? It looks like a particular version of SxSStackListener is causing the problem. A user wrote a PowerShell script to determine the problematic version.
After the developers released WordPress version 6.2.1 on May 16, 2023, they already had to follow up with WordPress version 6.2.2 on May 20, 2023. This is a maintenance and security update, which fixes a bug and a vulnerability.
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