[German]I'm dragging a separate topic here into a blog post that Microsoft has brought to administrators and users with the March 2025 patchday. I have received reports that the KB5053598 update is causing problems with RDP connections. These RDP connections are terminated after a short time. I posted this in the German blog a few days ago and received further confirmations.
[German]Microsoft has confirmed that Copilot will be uninstalled on some Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems as a result of the March 2025 updates. Those affected should install Copilot from the Store. However, I am currently not really sure whether this affects European users at all or whether readers are using Copilot on Windows 11 and are affected.
[German]I still have a report from the security researchers at CyberNews from the end of 2024, which looked at cyber security at companies in Europe and the USA. The surprising finding for me was that European companies suffer more security incidents from cyber attacks than US companies.
[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.
[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.
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