[German]Today a short note for administrators in corporate environments who use the PDFCreator from pdfforge on their Windows clients. The developer has made a change to the software for creating PDF documents. As a result, this software can no longer be used free of charge in corporate environments; instead, the business versions must be used.
[German]VMWare by Broadcom released a security update for VMware Tools to version 12.5.1 at the end of March 2025 to close a vulnerability. A blog reader contacted me the other day because he was running into massive problems with the network and AD service accounts with this version of VMware Tools under VMware ESXi.
[German]Small addendum to a topic that has been left here for a few days. Microsoft has already confirmed a new problem with Windows Server 2025 in connection with Active Directory Domain Controllers (DC) on April 11, 2025. After restarting the server operating system, the DC is no longer accessible. This is probably due to incorrectly assigned Windows Firewall profiles after each restart.
[German]A small addendum to the never-ending topic of VMWare by Broadcom, which is constantly unsettling users with changes to their product licenses. A few days ago there was an announcement that VMware ESXi 8 is once again free to download.
[German]Microsoft has released the security update KB5055523 for Windows 11 24H2 on April 8, 2025. The update is intended to bring improvements to various functions, update some AI components and close vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, this update can trigger a (SECURE_KERNEL_ERROR) Blue Screen.
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[German]Oracle's developers have released Virtualbox version 7.1.8 on April 15, 2025. This version is a maintenance update for bug fixes. Continue reading
[German]Users of Microsoft Outlook Classic have been plagued for months by CPU load spikes when typing texts. Microsoft has now acknowledged this problem with Office 365 (from version 2406, build 17726.20126).
[German]Update KB5002700 for Microsoft Office 2016 (MSI installation) released on April 8, 2025, crashes in Excel, Outlook and Word 2016. On April 10, 2025 Microsoft has released an out-of-band update KB5002623 to fix that crashed. On April 15, 2025, Microsoft also made the KB5002623 update for Office 2016 available in the WSUS.
[Ger]Brief information for administrators. Browser manufacturers and Certificate Authorities (CAs) have decided to shorten the lifespan of TLS server certificates from 13 months to 47 days. However, there is a transition period for this change until 2029, during which the validity period of a TLS certificate will be gradually reduced.
WordPress 6.8 was released on April 15, 2025. The announcement of this version can be found here. The update should bring some improvements and speed up websites.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
