[German]As of July 21, 2020 (3rd Tuesday of the month), Microsoft has released several optional cumulative updates for Windows 10 and its Windows Server counterparts. Here is an overview of the packages concerned.
[German]Until now, Microsoft uses it's semi annual Windows 10 feature update as a credo, made in stone. Now there are signs that Microsoft intends to switch to a 'one feature update per year'.
[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.
[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.
[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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[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
