[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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[German]German blog reader Christian contacted me yesterday by mail because he encountered a virus (Trojan) at some of his customers that was not detected by Microsoft Defender so far. There is not much information about the virus yet – unfortunately there is no scan available at VirusTotal. But I'll post the information Christian has already found out – maybe someone of you will find more information.
[German]Following the Chrome 91.0.4472.77 update (see Google Chrome 91.0.4472.77 with security fixes) on May 25, 2021, Microsoft released Edge 91.0.864.37 on May 27, 2021. The update fixes various vulnerabilities that have already been fixed in Google Chrome.
[German]Microsoft has introduced the "News and interests" feature in Windows 10 (first in version 21H1, later it was backported in 20H2) via update. An icon in the taskbar can be used to display the weather forecast as well as a feed with current headlines from news magazines. Since there are discussions within my German blog, I take up the topic and show how the display can be deactivated, for example.
[German]Acer has just announced four new Chromebook lines, including the industry's first 17-inch Chromebook, the Acer Chromebook 317, all based on the latest technologies and features to meet the needs of consumers, students and business users.
Microsoft's Exchange team has just announced improvements for shared calendars in Outlook for Windows. These should dramatically improve reliability and synchronization latency for shared calendars and delegated calendars across all Outlook clients. The improvements have been available for some time in Outlook on the Web, the new Outlook for Mac and for mobile devices, and now in Outlook for Windows. Right now, about 10% of Outlook for Windows users in the Current Channel with version 2103 have received these improvements. Microsoft plans to gradually expand this rollout through the summer. Details can be found in the Techcommunity article Outlook for Windows Shared Calendar Public Notifications.
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