[German]Unknown hackers are running a campaign (running since May 2018) against Microsoft SQL-Server. The group succeeds in providing thousands of these SQL servers with a backdoor every day. There seems to be a whole botnet of infected SQL servers running Remote Access Trojans and Crypto-Miner.
[German]A brief question: Does somebody expects issues with Microsoft Teams after installing the out-of-band updates to fix the Windows 10 VPN internet connectivity bug (like update KB4554364)? One user reported, that the receive error 4c7 during Teams re-login.
[German]The settings in Windows 10 are permanent under construction – or in other words 'simply broken'. Things that are changed in the control panel are simply not considered in the settings page. For example, Windows 10 doesn't properly apply the defaults for installed Windows features between Control Panel and Settings.
[German]Nvidia has released the GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 445.78 for Windows to solve a problem. And Realtek has released Windows HDA drivers for several Lenovo ThinkCentre machines.
[German]Microsoft released the Windows Admin Center as Preview 1910.2 on March 31, 2020. The preview is available for Windows Insider. Here is some information on this topic, which might be of interest for administrators in corporate environments
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[German]Microsoft has released version 0.16.0 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users a few hours ago. The new version brings the ImageResizer and the Window Walker.
[German]Sometime soon, Windows 10 will get a so-called news bar. Then important messages will be displayed above the taskbar during operation.
[German]Small hint for administrators of large Windows environments in the Active Directory environment who need to plug the ADV200006 0-day vulnerability. Mitigation is possible using Group Policy.
[German]Microsoft has just announced to postpone the deactivation of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.2 for its browser products (Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11), originally planned for 1st half of 2020.
[German]As of March 31, 2020 there was a service disruption affecting both SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Blog reader Andreas P. informed me this morning by e-mail about these disruptions. It looks as if the throttling measures of Microsoft have been implemented incorrectly. The malfunction should be fixed now.
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