[German]Microsoft has published a support article stating that a bug in the drag & drop functionality of Outlook Classic has been fixed. The bug crept in via the January 2025 update and probably occurred under Windows 11 24H2.
[German]The next blog reader with performance problems under Windows 11 24H2 has reached me. The reader set up a system with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU on an ASRock Z890 Pro RS mainboard and installed Windows 11 24H2. Then he ran into massive problems. He has since been able to verify the behavior on a notebook. In addition, there is another reader message reporting unsightly effects of the February 2025 update under Windows 11.
[German]I have come across a report that the February 2025 update KB5051987 can cause problems during installation. The update cannot be installed in Windows 11 24H2 and aborts with the error code 0x800F0838. The cause is probably a missing Servicing Stack Update (SSU). Here are a few information about this issue and how to fix it.
[German]A quick question for the administrators among the blog readership who are responsible for Remote Desktop Server. A reader has just informed me by email that there have been problems with RDS activation since Friday, February 21, 2025. The cause is that the Microsoft Clearinghouse server is simply unavailable. It looks like an outage – are there others affected?
[German]Microsoft has released optional, cumulative (preview) updates for Windows 10 22H2 (KB5050081) and Windows 11 24H2 (KB5052093) as well as Windows 11 22H2-23H2 (KB5052094) on February 25, 2025. These updates contain corrections that can be tested and will then be rolled out generally 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 higher contains options for automatic installation).
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[German]Today I'm posting a collection of problems that I've recently encountered from readers or on the Internet in connection with Microsoft 365 (Outlook 365), Outlook 2024 and Exchange Online. From temporarily disappearing appointments or parts of email signatures to undeliverable emails to Strato, everything is included.
[German]Brief information for people who may still be looking for drivers and firmware from Adaptec. The download area is no longer available – thanks to the reader who contacted me about this. The downloads should now be available at Microchip.
[German]I have received a user message about problems with virtualization using VMware Workstation Pro 17.x on Windows 11 24H2 clients. One user complains that the guest operating systems run extremely slowly. When VMware Workstation is started as a special administrator, virtualization works as expected.
[German]Nartac Software has already released version 4.0 of its small tool IIS Crypto on February 13, 2025. Support for Windows Server 2025 has been added, as well as support for the TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 Cipher Suite.
[German]On February 20, 2025, there was a major disruption to the Microsoft Azure Cloud in Norway. The affected services were unavailable for hours. Norwegian authorities and the government were among those severely affected, as they had moved their services to the Microsoft cloud.
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