[German]Windows 10 or Windows 11 and AMD are not a dream team and may cause trouble again and again. The processor manufacturer AMD has now confirmed in a support document that systems with fTPM cause problems under Windows 10 and 11. Intermittent system stuttering can occur when fTPM is enabled under Windows 10 and 11. The remedy is to disable fTPM, as the manufacturer writes in a support document.
[German]Security vendor Forescout has found no less than seven vulnerabilities in the PTC Axeda agent during an investigation. This software is used in medical and IoT devices, which means that the vulnerabilities grouped under the name Access:7 have an impact on the security of such devices. Here is a brief overview of the facts.
[German]On March 8, 2022 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products like SharePoint Server. Here is an overview of the available updates.
[German]Small addendum for administrators in enterprise environments. Microsoft released Chromium Edge 99.0.1150.36 on March 7, 2022. With this browser version, the group policy to prevent the display of ads in corporate environments finally works.
[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 91.7.0 on March 8, 2022. It is a maintenance update for the 91 development branch, which brings various fixes.
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[German]US security provider Fortinet has already published security advisories on major vulnerabilities in its products (firewalls etc.) at the beginning of March 2022. Blog reader Martin H. had informed me about these security advisories via email the other day. So I'm just posting the information here without commenting.
[German]A quick note for Windows Server 2022 administrators: Be careful when applying the security update KB5011497 from March 8, 2022. I have received a report from an administrator that this update can cause severe problems with remote services. Certain roles are no longer available after installing this update – and this could be verified on several server instances.
[German]Microsoft has also released security updates for Windows 7 and 8.1 as well as for the Windows Server counterparts 2008 R2 and 2012/R2 on March 8, 2022. Among other things, corrections are being made to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Here is an overview of these special updates for Windows 7/8.1 and the corresponding Windows Server versions 2008 R2 and 2012/R2.
[German]On March 8 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft also released a cumulative update for Windows 11, which will be released on October 5, 2021. The update is supposed to fix various problems. In addition, Windows Server 2022 received an update. Here are some details about these updates. Continue reading
[German]Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 as of March 8, 2022. These updates are required to address vulnerabilities reported by external security partners and found through Microsoft's internal processes. The updates apply to the Exchange Server on-premises installations listed below.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
