Microsoft fixes Outlook bug from December 2023 updates

Posted on 2024-04-06 by guenni

[German]An update for Office 365 from December 12, 2023 previously startled Outlook users with a security warning when they tried to open a calendar file (.ics). Microsoft has now fixed this issue so that the security warning from calendar files (.ics) should no longer appear. The fix is currently tested in beta channel and will be shipped soon.

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Office Updates (April 2, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-05 by guenni

[German]On April 2, 2024 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2016 and various programs. I'll summarize some information about these updates here in the blog (thanks to the reader for the hint).
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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

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Windows 11: Moment 5 Update KB5035942 is causing issues

Posted on 2024-04-05 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released a preview update KB5035942 for Windows 11 22H2 – 23H2 on March 26, 2024, which should also bring some minor innovations as a Moment 5 update. However, it seems that this optional update is causing problems for some people, such as blue screens, black screens or installation errors. However, Microsoft has also provided the dynamic update KB5036567 on March 25, 2024 to improve compatibility for Windows 11 22H2 – 23H2.

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Synology Active Backup for Microsoft 365: Problems with the backup of Teams (March 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-04 by guenni

Amazon[German]A short note for administrators who use Active Backup for Microsoft 365 from Veeam and may run into problems or an error when backing up Microsoft Teams. There are probably two traps: First, an API limit that you can run into. And there is a known problem that prevents the backup, as I have just learned.

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Veeam Backup O365: Fails during backup of Office 365 (April 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-04 by guenni

[German]Brief information for the administrators among our readers who use Veeam Backup O365 to back up data from Microsoft Office 365. A user has contacted us because he has recently encountered a backup error and asked whether other users have had similar experiences. However, there is a workaround to get around the problem.

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Windows NTLM credentials vulnerability CVE-2024-21320: Fix from 0patch

Posted on 2024-04-04 by guenni

Windows[German]There is a vulnerability in Windows (CVE-2024-21320) that exposes NTLM credentials about Windows topics. Microsoft patched the vulnerability CVE-2024-21320 in January 2024. This patch provides a policy to prevent the exposure of NTLM credentials when theme files are located on network drives. ACROS Security has now released a micropatch for the 0patch agent that generally closes the vulnerability (without registry intervention).

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Microsoft slammed for a cascade of faults that leads to Storm-0558 cloud hack

Posted on 2024-04-03 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]The US Cyber Safety Review Board has now published its report on the hack of Microsoft Online Exchange in the summer of 2023 by the suspected Chinese group Storm-0558. The board's conclusion: Microsoft can't do security! And certainly not in its own cloud. A "cascade" of errors, committed by Microsoft or its employees, is responsible for the hack of the Microsoft Cloud and Microsoft Online Exchange accounts.

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Windows 10: Prices for Extended Security Updates announced

Posted on 2024-04-03 by guenni

Windows[English]Microsoft has already announced that there will be an ESU program (Extended Security Updates Program) for Windows 10, which will no longer be supported on 14 October 2025. Even private users will be able to purchase extended security updates for their Windows 10 installations. However, it was previously unclear how much this ESU extension, which is to be purchased on an annual basis, would cost. Now, for the first time, Microsoft has named prices for ESU licenses for support renewal, which start at 61 US dollars for the first year.

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WordPress 6.5 released

Posted on 2024-04-03 by guenni

WordPress 6.5 (Regina) has just been released (April 2, 2024). It is the first update of WordPress in 2024. An overview of the new features can be found here – and a summary can be found here, here and here. I have updated the blogs and have not yet discovered any problems. However, anyone updating should make a backup of the database and the old installation beforehand.

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VMware plans two Cloud Foundation releases, can they do it? CISPE complaint filed

Posted on 2024-04-03 by guenni

[German]There are innovations from the VMware by Broadcom front. The company plans to publish two new releases of its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in 2024 and 2025. These should be better tailored to "customer needs" and simplify their virtualization job. Can these plans stop VMware customers from migrating to other platforms? The statements made by Broadcom/VMware executives to The Register certainly sound like a mockery to me (customers haven't yet understood how good we are for them). The European CISPE has probably lodged something of a competition complaint with EU policy makers.

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