[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).
[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.
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[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.
[German]I'll take up a topic for the readership that Frank Carius noticed when he recorded an RTP session via UDP using Wireshark. In the recording, he found a large number of UDP broadcast packets on ports 22222 and 3289. Of course, the question immediately arose as to what was causing these UDP broadcasts.
[German]Two weeks ago, Microsoft released CU15 for its Exchange Server 2019. A blog reader contacted me yesterday because he came across a nice change during testing. Server certificates can now (again) be updated directly via GUI – the recourse to PowerShell required with CU14 is no longer necessary.
[German]A quick reminder that Microsoft is getting serious about hardening Windows clients and servers for the Kerberos protocol as early as February 2025. Microsoft has also introduced a string length limit to the Kerberos policy for host names. Here is a reminder of the timelines for phased hardening and string length limitation in the Kerberos host-to-realm policy, which was introduced in February 2025.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
