[German]A short note or addendum for users of Windows 11 24H2 who rely on Veeam Backup & Recovery. Rudi has already pointed out to me on March 22, 2025 that the restore functionality of Veeam backups via Veeam Recovery in Windows 11 no longer works. Windows updates from February 2025 seem to be to blame. Veeam has confirmed this and is working with Microsoft to resolve the issue.
[German]Microsoft has released optional cumulative (preview) updates for Windows 10 22H2 (KB5053643) and Windows 11 22H2-23H2 (KB5053657) on March 25, 2025. Addendum: The preview update KB5053656 for Windows 11 24H2 has been released on March 27, 2025. These updates contain corrections that can be tested and will then be generally rolled out as fixes in the following month. It should be noted that preview updates must be manually initiated for download and installation by default (although Windows 11 22H2 and later contains options for automatic installation).
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[German]Brief information for users and administrators of VMware by Broadcom vCenter installations. It looks like Broadcom is going to throw the next chicane into the ring for VMware vCenter customers. From April 23, 2025, vCenter administrators will probably only be able to pull and distribute updates with update tokens.
[German]One of my followers on Mastodon recently pointed out to me that emails with attachments sent via outlook.live.com are "unintentionally" saving these attachments in OneDrive. Has anyone else noticed this? I then did some research and found that there was an announcement on March 5, 2025 that Microsoft 365 will use OneDrive to store folders from March 2025. This runs under the term OneDrive Known Folder Move (KFM). I'll include this information in the article.
[German]Brief warning or information for administrators who use AMI MegaRAC BMC. The company has already published a security warning on March 11, 2025. There is a critical vulnerability CVE-2024-54085 (CVSS v4 score of 10.0), which should allow a remote server takeover or even "bricking" a server.
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[German]Does anyone in the readership use NAKIVO Backup & Replication for data backup? The US Cybersecurity Agency CISA has published a warning regarding a vulnerability in this solution. Administrators should apply the latest security updates.
[German]A little tip for users who like to experiment with Windows 10 and Windows 11, but also who are aware of the risk of killing the operating system. There is an open source solution for removing bloatware from these Windows operating systems and optimizing them from the ground up in terms of data protection, performance and app installation.
[German]Security experts are wondering whether large language models (LLMs), commonly known as AI solutions (AI), can be misused to create malware or keyloggers. Security researchers have tested this with the Chinese AI solution DeepSeek and were able to circumvent the security mechanisms.
[German]Short message for Exchange Online administrators. If no mails were delivered or messages ended up in quarantine as of today, March 21, 2025, it is not due to the tenant. Microsoft has posted a message in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center under EX1038119 that a bug is being investigated that causes messages to end up in quarantine by mistake.
[German]Does anyone in the readership use the Microsoft OneNote app on Windows 10? The OneNote for Windows 10 product will no longer be supported in October 2025 (with Windows 10). From June 2025, users will have to be prepared for problems with synchronization.
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