[English]Today another small blog post about Extended Security Updates support (ESU) for Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2. I encountered the problem last year. Despite a valid ESU license, my Windows 7 SP1 production system wouldn't pull updates, nothing showed up. At the end of the day there was a surprising solution.
[German]Brief warning to administrators of Microsoft Exchange servers. While investigating an attack on a major U.S. hospitality company, security firm Sophos has discovered a new ransomware called Epsilon Red. Red Epsilon exploits unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers to infect machines on the network and then encrypt files there.
[German]Three years ago, on May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. This meant enormous changes for many companies with regard to the storage and processing of data – although the GDPR had not introduced anything new. But now, severe penalties loom for companies that fall victim to a data protection incident. To mark this anniversary, UK market research firm Opinion Matters conducted a survey of 1,276 business decision-makers on behalf of CrowdStrike to gauge current perceptions of the regulations within companies.
[German]Recently version 91 of the Chromium Edge browser was released by Microsoft to catch up with the Chromium development version level. With Chromium Edge version 91, Microsoft has not only elevated the browser to a new development branch, but also managed to alienate people again with bugs and especially annoying pop-ups.
[German]I'm summarizing two topics that have been lying around for a while in a collective post. It's about the possibility to install drivers in Windows 10. In Windows 10, Microsoft has made an update to the device manager in the Insider Previews at the beginning of May 2021 to better manage drivers. And a blog reader contacted me by email back in March about some driver installation oddities related to WSUS and Windows 10 that he noticed.
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[German]It seems that the new feature "News and interests", installed with optional preview update KB5003214 is causing some nasty issues for some users of Windows 10 version 21H1 (and probably version 2004/20H2). First I got a report from one German user, but after publishing an article in German, other users confirming the issue – and I found more references within the internet.
[German]Administrators who manage Windows 10 devices may face the problem of connecting a large number of new Windows devices to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Intune. This task can be accomplished with the help of an appropriately created deployment package and Intune. Microsoft's Intune group has published an article on this topic.
[German]It's a strange issue, that users of monitors on the DisplayPort have. The monitors remain dark (black) when booting the computer and do not display anything. Only when the operating system is loaded, a display appears on the monitor at some point. It seems to be due to the hardware or the installed nVidia graphics cards.
[German]A hacktivist has managed to pull huge amounts of data from the crime app Citizen and subsequently published it on the dark web. The dataset contains 1.7 million "incidents" (the notifications in the app), which reveals new insights into how Citizen works.
[German]Microsoft's latest Edge update is causing trouble for users because a bug has crept in. Users can no longer set a start page that Edge automatically loads on startup. The browser simply ignores all settings in the Edge 91.0.864.37 version. Addenum: It seems to be a nasty feature.
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