On the last Friday in July (today July 26, 2019) is Sysadmin-Day, on which system administrators all over the world are celebrated. This memorial day was invented by system administrator Ted Kekatos and has been held since July 28, 2000.
[German]Systems that have certain versions of the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) drivers installed cannot be updated to the Windows 10 May 2019 Update. Microsoft has set an upgrade blockade. And for machines in a domain, there are boot issues with MIT Kerberos when installing the May update (KB4497935).
[German]A German blog reader contacted me last week and pointed out a problem related to WSUS. His WSUS 3.2.7600.307 can no longer check PSF files. Here is some information about this topic.
[German]In a blog post, Microsoft explained the complex approach of in-place upgrading of a Windows Server 2008/R2 to successor systems. It's not all that easy – and as an addendum, I need to say, that some advices given by Microsoft are standing in contradiction to what experienced administrators will do.
[German]Microsoft has released the KB4505903 cumulative update on June 26, 2019 for the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (Versions 1903) after an extensive testing period with Windows Insiders. Remark: The update has been released accidentially on 07/25/2019 via Microsoft Update Catalog and has then been pulled. Now it's available and documented.
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The open source FTP server ProFTPD is vulnerable up to version to 1.3.5b. CVE-2019-12815allows the execution of arbitrary program code with the rights of the service.
German CertBUND warns here about he vulnerability CVE-2019-12900 in the open source bzip2 (versions <= 1.0.6), which is used in Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux. The vulnerability allows execution of arbitrary program code with the rights of the service. SUSE has released a security update for bzip2.
[German]Microsoft is also engaged in Open Source – and they develop internally an Open Source network operating system for Cloud applications, called SONiC. Here is some information.
[German]A brief tip for Windows 10 users who suddenly suffer from a full system drive and find gigabyte-sized text files with names like SnipUsages or SnipUsagesUpload in the user profile.
[German]Microsoft mistakenly released build 18947 of Windows 10 (the 20H1 development branch) a few hours ago. Was only distributed to Windows Insiders and the version has already been withdrawn. It looks as if Microsoft is working internally on a revision of the start menu.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
