Windows Server 2019 Evaluation and Security Baseline Draft

Microsoft has released Windows Server 2019 evaluation to the general public. There is also a draft Security Baseline for Windows 10 V1809 and Windows Server 2019.

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October the 1st, a historic day

Somehow, looking at the calendar, I noticed that today is October 1st. A date with historical significance, not only that today the Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to two cancer researchers.

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YouTube Mini Player in Desktop Browser available

[German]Short information for users of the platform YouTube. YouTube started to release the mini-player to a broader user base, and it even works in Microsoft Edge. I have tested this feature briefly, here some information and impressions to the topic.

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Microsoft: Linux dominates Azure VMs, has Windows a future?

[German]At the Ignite 2018 conference last week in Orlando, Florida, USA, Microsoft management released interesting figures. For virtual machines running on Microsoft Azure, there is a massive migration to Linux: 50% runs on Linux – which raises the question of whether 'Windows is running out'?

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Ignite 2018: New features for OneDrive announced

Microsoft is working hard behind the scenes to give its OneDrive clients new features. During the Ignite conference in Orlando last week some new features became known, If you like to know, what's coming, Microsoft's Stephen Rose has published a blog post what's planned for OneDrive in near future.

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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 ...


Windows 10 Enterprise V1809 evaluation versions

[German]Microsoft has released evaluation versions of Windows 10 Enterprise V1809 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 last week, during Ignite 2018 conference.

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Ignite 2018: What’s new in Microsoft Azure

Just a brief info for people who are engaged into Microsoft Azure and Cloud. At the Ignite 2018 conference Microsoft presented some new features of Microsoft Azure including cloud services. 

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Facebook: Hackers accessed 50 Mio. Access Tokens

[German]Facebook has just admitted a vulnerability within it's network. Hackers probably was able to stole access tokens and abuse 50 million accounts. Possibly more accounts are affected, Facebook has reset 90 million accounts. In addition, a White Hat hacker on Sunday wanted to delete Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account. It is unclear whether the announced hack to Mark Zuckerberg's account is related to this. Here is what is known so far.

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WSUS: Windows 10 Feature Updates re-released (Sept. 28)

[German]A few days ago Microsoft re-released some cumulative updates for Windows 10 (see my blog post Windows 10: Updates KB4458469, KB4457136 (09/26/2018)) and explains that something has been missing in the first release. Today Microsoft has re-released again a massive batch of features updates for Windows 10 (V1703 – 1803, as 'new updates'. These updates has been synchronized in WSUS on September 28, 2015. Here are details and some explantion.

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Skype Classic: Support ends on November 1st 2018

Skype[German]Microsoft has announced the end of support for Skype Classic (Skype Client 7.x) for November 1st 2018 and recommends users to update to Skype 8.x and later immediately.

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