[German]A few days ago, a German blog reader sent me a mail about an issue he was facing. After migrating from Windows 7 clients to Windows 10 V1809, the clients could not logon to a domain because the user profile service could not be loaded.
Google's Chrome browser will get a protection feature to block dangerous drive-by downloads. This should prevent the distribution of malware via this channel.
[German]Users of Windows Media Player (WMP) and/or Windows Media Center (WMC) will facing a reduction in functionality soon. Microsoft will discontinue the metadata service used by Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center for certain versions of Windows in the future.
Google holds a developer conference once a year, the Google I/O. Traditionally, this takes place in May. Now the date for 2019 has been announced.
Microsoft has released Firmware updates for its Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Go LTE Advanced. The new firmware brings stability improvements and improves the functionality of the Surface Pen with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.
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Just a small tip for administrators in SCCM environments. Microsoft has released the ConfigMgr Client Health Toolset to simplify troubleshooting issues in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
Another brief information for Exchange administrators. There is an unpatched vulnerability (CVE-2018-8581) on all Exchange Server versions that could be used by remote attackers to take over the machine.
[German]Microsoft's Office365 business customers are facing an outage of Microsoft's Office365.com service since January 24, 2019. Exchange Online is partially not reachable, so email can't be send or received. Today (Saturday, January 26, 2019) a status update about that outage.
[German]Brief information for administrators of Windows 10 v1809 clients or Windows Server 2019 instances. There is an issue with the Security Baseline where a newly introduced SystemGuard Launch option can cause to a blank screen when booting a UEFI system.
[German]Thursday, January 24, 2019, about 11,500 Microsoft employees were probably quite annoyed because their mailboxes were flooded with 'tons of e-mails'. A configuration change to the Microsoft's Github account was the root cause of this incident.
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