Office 365: TLS 1.0/1.1 support ends on Oct. 15, 2020

Posted on 2020-07-22 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is now getting serious and will discontinue support for insecure TLS protocols in Office 365 on October 15, 2020. The step had been announced for a long time, but was postponed again due to coronavirus. Maybe the information is of interest for one or the other administrator in the office environment.

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Windows 10X: Launch 2021 als Light without Win32 Support

Posted on 2020-07-21 by guenni

[German]According to a new report from Mary Foley at ZDNet, Microsoft plans a Windows 10X rollout for or single-screen devices in spring 2021. A dual-screen support is planned for spring 2022. And Windows Central reports, that Windows X doesn't come with support for Win32-Apps, only web apps and UWP apps shall be supported.

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Is Microsoft planning a ‘Windows 10 Cloud-PC’ for 2021?

Posted on 2020-07-21 by guenni

[German]There is a new rumor that Microsoft could start as early as spring 2021 with something like a Windows 10 cloud PC. Possibly a counterpart to Google's Chrome OS devices? Or something more like a Windows Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution?

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Fail: Samsung Magician, Windows and old SSDs …

Posted on 2020-07-21 by guenni

[German]Hot topic – Samsung SSDs and the tool provided by the manufacturer Samsung Magician. As it looks, users are running into the problem that older SSDs are no longer supported by the Samsung Magician.

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Windows 10 V2004: Update KB4565503 fixes Thunderbolt BSOD

Posted on 2020-07-20 by guenni

[German]Microsoft claims, the cumulative update KB4565503 for Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Version 2004) also fixes the BlueScreen issue when connecting or disconnecting a Thunderbolt dock.

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SIGRed-Patch KB4565524: Install fails in Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted on 2020-07-20 by guenni

Windows Update[German]Microsoft released update KB4565524 for Windows Server 2008 R2 on July 14, 2020. Among other things, the update is intended to close the critical SIGRed vulnerability in the Windows DNS server. However, users report that the update installation fails with error code 0x80070661.

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Windows 10 2004: Does Update KB4565503 remove apps?

Posted on 2020-07-20 by guenni

[Geman]Brief question to  people with Windows 10 May 2020 Update. Do you still have applications like Notepad, Wordpad and the classic MS Paint? It looks like Microsoft will remove these applications via update.

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Windows 10/Server 2016: Security policy Inactivity limit does not work

Posted on 2020-07-20 by guenni

[English]A German blog reader noticed that the local security policies for locking a user account during inactivity seem to stop working on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and 2019. I'm going to put it up for discussion here, maybe the community can contribute to the clarification.

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Windows 10 1909: Intune bugfix in BitLocker Key Rotation

Posted on 2020-07-19 by guenni

Microsoft has just released a fix for Intune. The fix fix fixes a bug in the BitLocker Key Rotation when managing Windows 10 version 1909 systems with Intune.

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Windows 10 May 2020 Update creates ESENT warnings

Posted on 2020-07-19 by guenni

[German]Windows 10 May 2020 update may have some bugs internally that cause issues. This is results for instance in warning 642 entries in the event logs, where ESE reports that it cannot write to the ESENT database.

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