[German]Microsoft has released optional, cumulative (preview) updates on April 25, 2022 (D-Week). These are intended to correct various bugs in Windows 10, Windows 11 and in the corresponding Windows Server versions. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 10 (20H2-21H2) and the Windows Server versions in question.
[German]The use of Microsoft 365 at schools in German state of Baden-Württemberg has been banned after the summer 2022. Schools must offer suitable alternatives for students and teachers. This is pointed out by the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Baden-Württemberg, Dr. Stefan Brink, in a recent press release. This is a failure with an announcement, because the data protection officer had already noted in 2021 that he had serious concerns about the GDPR conform use of Microsoft 365 (including Office 365) in Baden-Württemberg's schools after an audit lasting several months.
[German]As of April 12, 2022, Microsoft has released security updates for Windows 10 and Windows Server. I have received information via user comments that the update KB5012599 for Windows 10 version 20H2-21H2 causes problems with some installations. The installation aborts with error code 0x800F0831 or error code 0x8024200B. In the meantime, I have done some research and summarized the issue in the following article.
[German]The hacker group, which is allegedly made up of teenagers (at least some teenagers were arrested in the UK in this regard), has probably also hacked T-Mobile in the USA several times. The group had access to T-Mobile's Atlas system (used to manage customer accounts). This is shown by chat records that security blogger Brian Krebs was able to view.
[German]Microsoft plans to phase out support for the NetBIOS and LLMNR network protocols used for multicast name resolution in Windows in the future. Currently, this is already being tested in the last Windows Dev and Beta Insider builds. At a later point in time, the complete support in Windows should be dropped.
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[German]At the moment, it feels like every company is moving its IT to the cloud or is more or less forced to do so by the providers. You often read that the whole thing will be easier and more secure when switching to the cloud – the cloud provider will take care of it. However, the whole thing can become a challenge in terms of security, especially if several cloud providers have to be administered at the same time.
[German]Microsoft already informed me by email at the end of March 2022 that accounts for classic storage (Classic Storage Account) will soon no longer be supported. Users will no longer be able to access this storage after August 31, 2024 and will have to migrate to Azure Resource Manager. Here is the information from the email:
[German]Quick announcement for the weekend. Atlassian has fixed the Jira/Confluence outage that has existed since early April 2022 and the accompanying data loss for various customers. At the same time, the vendor revealed some details about the issue.
[English]Security provider Zscaler has produced a study on phishing attacks. The annual ThreatLabz report sees phishing-as-a-service as the reason for the rise in attacks across industries worldwide. Retail and wholesale was the hardest-hit industry, with phishing attacks up more than 400 percent in the last 12 months.
[German]If you follow the press coverage, Windows 11 is a tremendous success – almost 20 % of the desktop market should already run with this operating system. But there are doubts – an analysis by Lansweeper suggests that Windows 11 will run on about 1.44% of all PCs in April 2022. I have not heard any figures from Microsoft so far. So it's time to put the Lansweeper numbers against the AdDuplex data.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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