[German]There has been a bug in the code of the Windows DNS server for 17 years that leads to a critical vulnerability. The worm exploitable vulnerability could be exploited to gain domain administrator privileges and compromise the entire underlying corporate infrastructure.
As of July 14, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview 19042.388 (20H2 development branch) for insiders on the Beta Channel (formerly the Slow Ring). The whole thing comes as cumulative update KB4565503. The announcement was made in the Windows Blog, where you can find references to this build and the bug fixes it contains.
[German]On July 14, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft) several cumulative updates for the supported Windows 10 builds were released. Here are some details about the respective updates.
[German]On 14 July 2020, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Internet Explorer, etc. Here you will find a compact overview of these updates.
[German]Avoid using Microsoft accounts, if you are in need of your data – that is the message of this article. We have some cases, where Microsoft is arbitrary blocking Microsoft Accounts – the associated digital content and services have disappeared. And there seems no way, to gain back your Microsoft Account. Time to uncover an absolute scandal once again.
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[German]Brief Information for Windows 10 users. Microsoft is currently testing with some Windows Insiders in the Insider Preview Build 20161, in addition to the new Start menu, also the new assignment of the key combination Alt+Tab. The task switching by this key combination also affects open tabs of the Edge Browser.
[German]Brief information for users of Microsoft's OneDrive-Client. Support for retrieving files from a client will be discontinued on July 31, 2020. Here is a summary, what I found out so far.
[German]Microsoft 365 Business users (or with similar subscriptions) may run into error code 0x8004en40 on OneDrive. The error code is categorized as a internet connection error. But there may be other causes as well, as a blog reader told me.
[German]Currently, some Surface users (Surface Laptop 3 for instance) with Windows 10 suffer from the fact that the upgrade to the latest version 2004 is not offered – the upgrade ist still blocked. Here is a short status update.
[German]Good news for a change. In Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Version 2004) Microsoft has finally fixed a problem with the installer. The recovery partition is no longer entered first, but the installer follows the official GPT guidelines.
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