[German]Once again, I would like to address a topic that was brought to my attention by a blog reader. In his environment, he has noticed that customers can no longer start their Outlook Classic on Microsoft Terminal Server. Perhaps the swarm intelligence of the readership will help.
[German]March 10, 2025 was probably not such a stress-free day for the supporters at Microsoft and X.com. Both the successor to the former Twitter, x.com, was down for hours (there is said to have been a DDoS attack). Microsoft's cloud services also still seem to be experiencing disruptions, as readers have reported. However, I was unable to react earlier as I was out and about all day – so I didn't notice any of the disruptions.
[German]OneDrive users have been suffering for months from the fact that integrated folders are suddenly only displayed as shortcuts. It's probably a bug, as I found out. Now a person affected has told me that the shortcut has been turned back into a folder. I would be interested to know whether this observation can be confirmed by other readers.
[German]The US authority CISA has issued a warning because criminals posing as the "BianLian Group" have launched an extortion campaign. The criminals are sending blackmail letters to company executives and threatening to pass on sensitive information if they do not pay. Here are a few details about this warning.
[German]This week, VMware by Broadcom has released security updates for various products, including VMware ESXi servers, to close security gaps. One vulnerability has already been exploited as a 0-day. Now The Shadowserver Foundation warns that over 37,000 VMware ESXi servers are vulnerable via CVE-2025-22224. Germany is also represented with several thousand installations.
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[German]There have been reports recently that users are collecting old Brother firmware versions. The reason: there are fears that new firmware updates will block the use of third-party toner or ink. Brother has now denied that firmware updates impose such restrictions.
[German]A blog reader contacted me by e-mail and reported on the latest fail of VMware by Broadcom. There were hurdles when booking a follow-up license, but they could be overcome. However, unneeded services had to be included, which were agreed in the contract as training services. At the end of the day, however, the user had to realize that the credits booked for training courses were worthless because the training companies could no longer bill them to VMware by Broadcom.
[German]Since six days (March 1, 2025), Microsoft's cloud services have been rumbling. Outlook, the Microsoft 365 services and Exchange Online have been disrupted again and again. As of March 6, 2025, I have received further reports from readers that Outlook.com is down and can also see this in error messages on the Android smartphone, where Thunderbird cannot reach a test mailbox at outlook.com. However, Microsoft states that only iOS is affected.
[German]Microsoft Store users may encounter error 0x80131500 when accessing the Store in Windows or updating apps and apps cannot be downloaded. Microsoft has published instructions on what those affected can do to resolve this error. This ranges from resetting the Store and checking for "Store updates" to checking the TLS settings.
[German]As of March 4, 2025, VMware by Broadcom has published a security advisory to warn of three zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225 and CVE-2025-22226) that have already been exploited in the wild. Patching is urgent.
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