Small reminder: Nine years ago, on October 17, 2013, the then "new" Windows 8.1 was released as a free upgrade to the hapless Windows 8 general. The release to manufacturing (RTM) date was August 27, 2013, and my ears were ringing with Microsoft's praise of how great it was. At the time, "touch operation" was all the rage – today, hardly anyone in Windows talks about this feature.
[German]Brief information for administrators in the Windows environment. A reader just informed me that Windows Update KB5012170 has been re-released in WSUS. This update was released on Patchday, August 9, 2022 to fix issues in Secure Boot DBX. However, this update caused significant issues with Bitlocker for some users, up to and including systems no longer booting.
[German]Brief note from Sysinternals tools – Mark Russinovich's team has released ZoomIt v6.1. ZoomIt is a screen zoom, annotation and recording tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations.
[German]Windows 10/11 and its server pendants should block known, malicious drivers when they are loaded, so that they cannot cause any damage, as Microsoft has claimed for years. Now, Microsoft has secretly admitted that they made a mistake there. Because the updates that are responsible for defining a driver blocking list in Windows were probably never reliably published or updated. However, administrators can update the block lists manually.
[German]Small tip for administrators of an Active Directory environment on Windows Server. There is a small PowerShell script to identify and fix common misconfigurations in Active Directory Certificate Services. I became aware of the tool via this tweet. he tool is offered under the name LockSmith under MIT license on Github.
[German]At Microsoft's Ignite conference, which took place last week, there were numerous presentations about new Microsoft products. It seems that a GUI of a Windows desktop appeared, which has nothing to do with current Windows 10/Windows 11 desktops. So there is speculation that it is an early developer variant of the next Windows generation (Windows 12 or whatever it will be called).
A little tip: There is a page on GitHub that lists links to various Microsoft administration and user portals.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Edge browser in the stable channel to version 106.0.1370.47 as of October 14, 2022. Is a security update, which should iron out the vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome. However, there are reports that Edge constantly writes to the system drives. In my opinion, this behavior is not really new.
[German]The developers of the BlackByte ransomware exploit a vulnerability in a legitimate Windows driver (from Micro-Star's MSI AfterBurner 4.6.2.15658) to bypass security solutions. Security researchers from Sophos recently pointed this out in a report. This technique is known as BYOVD (Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver) attack and is nothing new. However, I would like to raise the issue here as a renewed warning.
[German]Call for help from a blog reader struggling with Outlook 365 and shared mailboxes. In Outlook clients, online mode is no longer possible with shared mailboxes. Mails are no longer moved from the Outbox to the Sent Mail folder. The question that arises: Do any other readers have this or is the problem in the blog reader's environment.
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