[German]I'm adding yet another brick to the never-ending saga of "Broadcom buys VMware and squeezes the customers". It looks as if Broadcom's bet to squeeze as much money as possible out of VMware customers has paid off. The other day I read that 70 percent of large VMware customers currently book the vendor's largest license package.
[German]Currently, users of classic Outlook under Windows are automatically switched to the new Outlook app. Microsoft has now announced that the button for switching between classic Outlook and the new Outlook app does not work in certain scenarios.
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[German]A very unpleasant story that security researchers from Tarlogic Security have just revealed. There is a set of unknown commands that could be misused as a backdoor in a popular chip that has been built into millions of devices to support BlueTooth and WiFi connections.
[German]Microsoft has been struggling with disruptions to its Microsoft 365 services and Exchange Online since February 2025, but is keeping quiet about the cause. I have received information that a bug or vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Online has led to a catastrophic failure. I was told, a tenant administrator probably unintentionally triggered the deletion of mailboxes worldwide.
[German]I have again received a reader's report that Microsoft is probably currently switching installations of Outlook Classic to the new Outlook app again. Users of Microsoft Outlook 2000 have now been affected, as I have heard.
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[German]Brief information for Exchange Online users and administrators. Microsoft will introduce new limits for Dynamic Distribution Groups (DDGs) from April 2025. This limits the number of Dynamic Distribution Groups (DDGs) that can be used per organization to 3,000.
[German]There is no end to the disruption of the Microsoft cloud service outlook.com. Since March 1, 2025, the cloud services (Exchange Online, outlook.com, outlook.de etc.) have been experiencing repeated outages. The status is also disrupted on March 13 and 14, 2025.
[German]Microsoft has been struggling with cloud outages in Exchange Online and Microsoft 365, including the iOS Outlook app, since March 1st, 2025. At the same time, I have just come across information about the CVE-2024-49035 vulnerability on the Microsoft Partner Portal. There are now indications that the Exchange Online issues could be related to a vulnerability. And there are suspicions that customers may have been compromised. I'll summarize some of the information that I see as pieces of the puzzle in a certain (unfortunately still incomplete) picture.
[German]Brief information for users who use the Remote Desktop app for Windows (e.g. because the RDP connections do not work). It has just been announced that Microsoft will discontinue the Remote Desktop app for Windows on May 27, 2025. It will be replaced by the "Windows app", which will come from the Store.
[German]Next case of "HP rolls out a firmware update for printers and breaks them". The manufacturer HP has released a firmware update for printers which is intended to correct a number of errors. Shortly after the release, numerous users reported that their devices were broken and only displayed error 11. I am posting the facts here in the blog.
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