WordPress 6.5.2 released

Posted on 2024-04-10 by guenni

WordPress 6.5.2 has just been released (April 9, 2024). It is a security update of WordPress, which fixes a security issue and 12 bugs. An overview of the fixes can be found 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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Windows 10 21H2 – 22H2 Enterprise: Can not use Connected Cache after update KB5034203

Posted on 2024-04-09 by guenni

Windows[German]Addendum from last week on a problem that affects administrators in the corporate environment who rely on Connected Cache in Windows 10. The preview update KB5034203 released in January 2024 causes a bug in Windows 10 21H2 – 22H2 Enterprise, which means that the Connected Cache can no longer be used. However, Microsoft has published workarounds for this problem.

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

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Massive price hike in license costs: Is Citrix now also copying the "Broadcom business approach"?

Posted on 2024-04-08 by guenni

[German]German blog reader has told me that there are substantial price hikes for license renewals of Citrix Virtual Desktop solutions or other Citrix products. The question is "does Citrix copies the Broadcom business approach". Continue reading →

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft changes storage location for recordings from May 2024

Posted on 2024-04-07 by guenni

Teams[German]Brief note for administrators and users who use Microsoft Teams as a client and make recordings of meetings there. Microsoft wants to change the storage of these recordings from May 2024, away from the user's OneDrive folder and towards the meeting organizer. I only came across a short tweet about this recently, with no further source. However, I did some searching on the web and it seems to be an official announcement from Microsoft.

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Windows 10: Update KB5035941 fixes sysprep error 0x80073cf2

Posted on 2024-04-06 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5035941 for Windows 10 22H2 on March 26, 2024 (D-Week). This preview update is also intended to fix the sysprep error 0x80073cf2, which some users ran into back in November 2023 when installing the update.

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Windows Server 2019: March 2024 update KB5035849 prevents printer redirection

Posted on 2024-04-06 by guenni

Windows[German]I'm posting an issue here in the blog that a reader pointed out to me. The security update KB5035849 released on March 12, 2024 for Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC and Windows Server 2019 causes printing problems in certain cases. Under Windows Terminal Server, users can no longer print locally to their redirected printers. According to my research, other administrators have also encountered this problem.

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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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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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