[German]At the end of the year two additional topics for office administrators: One is is about the troubleshooting the Office Client Policy Service (OCPS), and the 2nd is about the problem that templates cannot be displayed in Office 2016.
[German]Another addendum from the weekend. The IoT provider Wyze just had to admit a data leak. Nearly 2.4 million user data were stored unprotected on a server on the Internet.
[German]Windows 10 November 2019 Update (Version 1909), seems to have issues with Group Policy because changes cannot be set reliably. At least a blog reader has made this experience in a test environment.
[German]Windows 10 users may fascing an updates install error 0x80070490. A blog reader recently pointed out a case for this issues with November and December 2019 cumulative updates and outlined how he could solve this.
[German]At the end of the year a short look at the Windows 10 November 2019 Update (Version 1909) and its bugs. An Explorer bug is to be fixed 'soon' – and another bug that wakes up machines in energy-saving mode is probably annoying the users, too.
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[German]Users of Acronis True Image (ATI), who use the product for backup, recently experienced a problem that the software forgot the backup settings. Now Acronis has provided the explanation.
[German]The University (UM) of the Dutch city of Maastricht has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. All computer systems are currently shut down since December 23, 2019.
In Google Chrome the www in the URL of the displayed web page in the browser has been removed. Lawrence Abrams explains at Bleeping Computer how you can build your own extension to this display the www again.
[German]Also with the Windows 10 November 2019 Update (Version 1909), Microsoft has issued a list of features that are defined as deprecated and will not be developed further. The list of features declared as obsolete can be found on this Microsoft page and was last updated on December 6, 2019.
[German]In the Google Chrome (Chromium) browser (and other software that uses SQLite), there were some vulnerabilities, called Magellan 2.0, in SQLite, which was closed with the update to Chrome 79.0.3945.79 or with a SQLite code commit of December 13, 2019.
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