[German]Microsoft slightly relaxed the licensing rules for Windows Server 2022 in early April to correct some annoyances and better keep up with the competition. For example, the requirement that VMs with 20 cores require a total of 24 licenses was removed. The colleagues at The Register noticed this and they picked it up in the post Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical.
[German]There are reports, that the Microsoft Edge browser is transmit the URLs of all websites visited by the user to the API of Microsoft's search engine Bing. The "Follow creators" feature, which is now being rolled out more broadly for users, is probably responsible. This feature can be turned off, however, but is once again an example that Microsoft doesn't have its stuff under control and administrators are riding a hot razor blade when they unleash something like this on users.
[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5025298 for Windows 11 version 21H2 on April 25, 2023. There are a number of new features and especially a long list of bug fixes. Below I give an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[German]Microsoft has released optional cumulative (preview) update KB5025305 for Windows 11 version 22H2 as of April 25, 2023. The update distributes a number of new features/bug fixes. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5025297 for Windows 10 on April 25, 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]The Mozilla developers have probably corrected the bug in Firefox 112.0.1, which led to high memory consumption with version 112.0.2. As of April 25, 2023, the maintenance update to version 112.0.2 has been released, which is supposed to fix the bug.
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[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another maintenance update of the email client to version 102.10.1 on April 24, 2023 (I had not addressed 102.10.0). It's a bug fix update which should eliminate bugs.
[German]Microsoft is making a 180-degree turn and will no longer automatically bundle its Teams video conferencing and messaging app with its Microsoft 365 packages as an Office solution. That's reported be Financial Times. With this move, Redmond is trying to take a step towards the EU Competition Commission and hopes to prevent an official antitrust investigation by EU regulators.
[German]Microsoft has updated the ISO installation images for various Windows 10 versions to include the April 2023 cumulative updates. The image files are available for download from Microsoft Visual Studio Subscription (MVS), formerly MSDN Subscription, and the Volume License Center (VLSC). The ISO files for Windows 11, on the other hand, do not yet appear to be offered in the April 2023 variant.
[German]Today a little tip for administrators in enterprise environments using Windows LAPS. German blog reader Heiko informed me on about a a graphical environment he wrote in PowerShell that lets you view Windows LAPS passwords, including password history.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
