Windows 11 24H2: Game issue with Auto HDR fixed; Dirac audio bug updated

Windows[German]Microsoft updated information on two known bugs in Windows 11 24H2 in February 2025. Firstly, the support article that addresses the issue of Dirac Audio losing audio output when using cridspapo.dll was updated. And the bug that the use of Auto HDR can cause games to become unresponsive or display incorrect colors is said to have been fixed.

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Microsoft 365 EOL announcements for 2025 – 2026

[German]Microsoft has recently made some announcements for functions in Microsoft 365 for March and April 2025 – 2026. The SharePoint add-ins will cease operation from 2026, and Azure ACS will also be discontinued. Here is a brief overview of what I have come across.

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Microsoft Office 365 and Office 2021 and the Exchange Online archive

[German]I'm posting an observation here in the blog that a reader pointed out to me. In environments with Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Office 2021, there are problems with accessing the Exchange Online archive archive. It depends on the license, whether you can access the Exchange Online archive archive.

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Microsoft Office: cloud.microsoft is now the start page for web apps (Feb. 2025)

[German]The home pages of the web apps for Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.) can now be accessed via the new domain cloud.microsoft. Microsoft is thus implementing an announcement made in 2023.

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Microsoft Office tries to connect and block aprimocdn.net

[German]Once again a somewhat strange observation from the readership. I have received a report that Microsoft Office has recently been trying to prevent access to the domain aprimocdn.net. It seems to be a security issue, as can be seen from a dialog box.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...


Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (February 4 and 11, 2025)

Update[German]On February 11, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Updates were also released for February 4, 2025. Below you will find an overview of the available updates.

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Patchday: Windows Server-Updates (February 11, 2025)

Windows[German]On February 11, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft) various cumulative updates were released for the supported versions of Windows Server. Below I have extracted the provided updates including some details for these Windows Server versions (from Windows Server 2012 to 2025).

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Patchday: Windows 10/11 Updates (February 11, 2025)

Windows[German]On February 11, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for the still supported versions of the client operating systems Windows 10 and Windows 11. Here are some details about these updates, which are intended to fix vulnerabilities and problems.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (February 11, 2025)

Update[German]On February 11, 2025, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – and for other products. The security updates eliminate 55 vulnerabilities (CVEs), three of which are classified as critical and four as 0-day. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on patchday.

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Microsoft 365 on WTS 2016: OneNote (18324.20194) won't launch?

[German]Microsoft updated its MS365 apps to build 18324.20194 at the end of January 2025. I have received user reports that since the upgrade to this build, Microsoft OneNote no longer starts on Windows Terminal Server (under Windows Server 2016).

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