[German]International law enforcement organizations (FBI, Interpol), have seized the leak site of the ransomware group 8Base, with the participation of the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation and on behalf of the Bamberg Public Prosecutor General's Office. In addition, four European suspects were arrested in Thailand.
[German]A quick question for users of Microsoft Outlook with a connection to Exchange Online. Have there been more and more problems with Microsoft Outlook in recent days, with it no longer responding or working extremely slowly?
[German]Back in November 2024, Microsoft had to admit that there was a bug in Windows 11 24H2. On the settings page, standard users cannot make any changes to the time zone in the settings page. This option is only offered to administrators. Microsoft has now fixed the problem.
[German]I have recently received an information from a blog reader who is struggling with the fact that some of his users' Microsoft 365 accounts are sporadically deleting contacts.
[German]I'm pulling out one more topic in this blog post that will concern Windows 10 users in February 2025. Microsoft is pushing the new Outlook app onto systems with the February 2025 security update. At the same time, the Windows Mail and Calendar app will be removed. Let's take a look at the facts.
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[German]In December 2024, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team observed limited activity from an unknown attacker using a publicly available, static ASP. NET machine key to inject malicious code and deploy the Godzilla post-exploitation framework.
[German]I'm picking up on a topic here in the blog that I've addressed a couple of days ago within my German blog. It likely causes problems for "enthusiastic" Windows 11 24H2 administrators who rely on the SNMP client (or other missing feature). The SNMP client is missing in this Windows 11 version and cannot be installed via Feature one Demand (FOD) because something is "broken", which interferes with administration via WSUS, for example. But now a kind of workaround is known.
[German]Microsoft just can't help itself and is forcing its business customers in Microsoft 365 to advertise Python in Excel. An administrator among the blog readers pointed this out to me (thanks for that).
[German]Microsoft continues to struggle with update issues for Windows 11 24H2. Security updates from October and November 2024 can cause an issue, that affected machines can no longer install subsequent updates if they were set up using USB media or CD/DVD drives with the corresponding installation images. However, Microsoft has now solved the problem.
[German]Brief information or reminder for administrators whose users are using macOS and rely on Microsoft 365 applications. Legacy support for Outlook on the Mac will expire in October 2025. This has implications if Outlook is to access mailboxes from on-premises Exchange server installations.
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